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STORY: Racist riots that erupted across the United Kingdom in the first half of August were ostensibly aimed at Muslims, immigrants and the police.

But for many Black Britons, it also reignited memories of racist violence by the far-right during the second half of the 20th century.

"Are we in 2024 or 1974? I mean, what?"

That's Ngozi Fulani, the CEO and founder of Sistah Space, an African and Caribbean heritage charity in East London.

The organization boarded up its windows as supporters warned them that far-right rioters were headed that way.

"I think it's important that people understand that there is trauma and re-trauma - there's historical trauma and current trauma. What the conversation seems to be happening in most households is how much this has thrown us back to those days when we saw our parents, our elders, going through this. This, for those of us who are old enough to remember the 60s and the 70s and all that kind of stuff, this is carbon copy."

The riots were fueled by misinformation spread online that the suspect in a deadly knife attack was an Islamist migrant.

Three little girls, Elsie Dot Stancombe, Alice da Silva Aguiar and Bebe King, were killed during that incident.

As well as white rioters attacking hotels housing asylum seekers, immigration centers, mosques, police officers and shops...

Videos also circulated online of white men attacking people of color across the country.

That includes a group badly beating a Black man in Manchester.

Kaushik Mistry is the founder of the Anthony Walker Foundation, a charity combating racism and hate crime.

"Suddenly you're a prisoner in your own home, in your own country, in the place where you live and work and contribute to that society. You know, and it's incredibly unhealthy that the result of the last week's actions have caused that for people."

Mistry said the foundation would normally have up to 50 referrals a week.

But in the first two weeks of August, more than 300 people affected by race and religious hate approached his charity.