| Description | The majority of press cuttings in this file contain articles from local and national newspapers relating to race relations, with particular reference to the situation in Smethwick during the 1960s, to elections in Smethwick, Birmingham and West Bromwich in 1966, and to the campaigning work against racism in politics done by the Indian Workers Association and other affiliated groups, including the Co-ordinating Committee Against Racial Discrimination.
Coverage includes: the operation of 'colour bars' in public houses 1965 and the Co-ordinating Committee Against Racial Discrimination [CCARD] campaign to test the extent of this despite opposition from former Smethwick councillor Don Finney, chairman of the English Rights Association; discrimination against immigrants in council housing policy; the effect of various government policies on immigration on the community in Smethwick; articles quoting the views of the Co-ordinating Committee Against Racial Discrimination and the English Rights Association; the strains in the health service apparently due to the increase in the number of immigrants; Tory plans for segregation in schools for children with a limited knowledge of English; the possible formation of a West Midlands police immigrant liaison squad; the views of local politicians on the situation in Smethwick; reports on some of the meetings and conferences of the Indian Workers Association; Peter Griffiths and the 1964 election campaign; petition circulated by Smethwick Conservatives calling for a five year ban on immigration 1964; appeals by the Indian Workers Association, the Pakistani Welfare Association and the West Indian Standing Conference urging supporters not to vote in the All Saints and Sparkbrook wards in Birmingham because of the attitudes of Labour MPs Walden and Hattersley towards immigration at the 1966 election when Andrew Faulds stood against Griffiths in Smethwick; the activities of the Birmingham Immigration Control Association 1966; the overcrowding of immigrants in deteriorating housing and a call for white couples to be given money towards deposit to buy homes in Smethwick 1963; protests over plans for a West Indian family's allocation of a flat in Wolverhampton; profile of Oswald Mosley's election campaign in Smethwick in 1926, dated 1966, shortly after Mosley lost his deposit at Shoreditch and Finsbury for the Union Movement; the operation of a 'colour bar' at the Gillott Lodge Hotel in Edgbaston 1966; Andrew Faulds' victory over Griffiths in Smethwick 1966, with details of other Midlands results and the apparent death of immigration as an election issue; invitation of Tariq Ali to speak at IWA Wolverhampton; Indian Workers Association members Jagmohan Joshi, National Secretary, Avtar Jouhl, Birmingham branch secretary, and Sahota, national president, walk out of a BBC recording session in Birmingham for 'Law and Order; profile of All Saints ward, Birmingham at the time of the 1966 election; Edward Heath's views on immigration; Enoch Powell's views on immigration; the election campaign in Bradford; the views of the 'English Rights Association' and the 'Racial Preservation Society'; the work of the Birmingham University branch of the 'Student Campaign against Racial Discrimination' in questioning government immigration policy and Roy Hattersley's support of this; 1966 election campaign in Sparkbrook and the abandonment of Roy Hattersley by the Socialist group at Birmingham University and by immigrant organisations; the West Bromwich election campaign 1966 and the impact of immigration on the campaign; focus on Smethwick and Southall before the 1966 election with a mention of IWA Southall and the IWA in Smethwick; several articles about Smethwick housewives protesting about immigrants in Marshall Street 1965; Joshi suggests the formation of a multi-racial residents association in Marshall Street; Joshi and Jouhl at meeting, together with representative from the Birmingham Indian Association, president Dr Dhani Prem 1965; the high level of immigrant children at Queensbridge school in Moseley, Birmingham in 1966; proposals by Birmingham Conservatives for the reorganisation of education 'just right for immigrant areas'; no black city councillors in Birmingham 1968; pregnancies of unmarried women, including Indian girls.
There is also an article about members of the Sikh community in Manchester being allowed to wear turbans at work as bus drivers and conductors.
The file also contains a copy of the newsletter of the 'Racial Preservation Society' entitled 'Midland News' 1965. |