 The following day Majbritt Morrison was verbally and physically assaulted by a gang of white youths that had recalled seeing her the night before.According to one report, the youths threw milk bottles at Morrison and called her racial slurs such as "Black man's trollop", while a later report stated that she had also been struck in the back with an iron bar.Later that night a mob of 300 to 400 white people were seen on Bramley Road attacking the houses of West Indian residents.