Moss Side, which sought to address employment inequality in Manchester and help train black women for office-based work. Her work with the Co-Operative also helped to improve the conditions and quality of education for black children in the city by campaigning for a supplementary school and a black bookshop.In 1977, Olive visited China as part of a trip organised by the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding.She also visited Morocco, Algeria, Spain, Hong Kong, France and Spain.During her time in Spain, Olive became ill and was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma when she returned to the UK.She died at just 27, on July 12 1979 at St Thomas's Hospital in London.In 1980, the Manchester Black Women’s Co-operative became the Abasindi.
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