Abstract
Stephen Lawrence was born in 1974; he was the first child of Doreen and Neville who emigrated from Jamaica in the 1960s. He had one brother Stuart and one sister Georgina. By the age of seven he had already resolved to become an architect. He lived at Plumstead, south-east London, which is a mixed community. Stephen had friends from different racial backgrounds. He didn't know what a racial incident was and he didn't see why the fact of being black may have endangered him. His family life was based on religious faith and education and he grew up with confidence in himself and others. In 1993 he was studying A-levels in English, craft, design and technology and physics at Blackheath Bluecoat School so as to become an architect and a local architect had already offered him a job. But Stephen was successful not only in the classroom. He loved athletics and once ran for Greenwich. Besides as a Cub, then Scout, he won an armful of badges for everything from cooking to sailing. And like others teenagers, Stephen liked going out, girls and music.
