LONDON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Doreen Lawrence, who led a campaign to get her teenage son's killers tried, is to get a seat in the British House of Lords, officials say.
The Labor Party decided to make her a baroness, the Daily Mirror reported.
"The courage she's shown in her fight for justice for her son has had a profound impact on attitudes to racism and policing," a source in the party told the newspaper.
"Her campaigning has changed and will continue to change our country for the better."
Lawrence created a foundation, the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, to honor her son and to help minority young people fulfill their ambitions.
Under current British law, most of the House of Lords consists of life peers selected because of their achievements.
Stephen Lawrence, 18, an aspiring architect, was stabbed as he waited for a bus with a friend and bled to death on a South London street in 1993. The killers allegedly attacked the two teens because they were black.
There have been several trials. In 2011, two men were convicted of the killing and are now in prison.
A 1998 report by Sir William Macpherson, a retired judge, found the Metropolitan Police had botched the investigation and the force was riddled with "institutional racism."
