| Description | Press cuttings containing articles from local and national newspapers on various issues relating to immigration and racism. These consist of:
statement by the Indian Workers Association that the policies of both the Labour party and the Conservative party are racist, late 1960s; Labour MP Roy Hattersley puts forward the case for taking immigration out of party politics 1965; demonstration at South Africa House against the Rhodesian regime by the Black Peoples Alliance and the Zimbabwe Solidarity Action Committee 1969; left wing groups form vigilante patrols in Islington and Camden to stop attacks on Pakistanis; demonstration to be held by Black Peoples Alliance at the Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference to protest against racial discrimination 1969; reports on demonstrations in Birmingham by the National Front and the activities of groups opposed to them, including the 'February 26 Committee' and the Birmingham Trades Council; undated Report on pseudo-scientific theories about racial superiority; the National Front try to disrupt a Co-operative conference on racism attended by Mark Bonham Carter, chairman of the Race Relations Board; the Pakistani Workers Union call for police protection against violence in East End of London; campaign to advise immigrants in Birmingham about birth control to be shown in Asian cinemas; 'Daily Mail' report that polygamy is legal among immigrants in UK; article on the operation of a 'colour bar' in a public house in London; Indian government protest against immigration restrictions 1961; report on slum areas of London and delays to opening of maternity hospital at Nuneaton; the imprisonment of African leaders by the Verwoerd regime in South Africa and the apartheid regime and violence there 1963; criticism by immigrants of a call to Maltese workers to come to Britain; the operation of a 'colour bar' in Walsall on the employment of bus crews; the boycott of a public house in Wolverhampton over its operation of a 'colour bar'; Tariq Ali to speak in Wolverhampton; the operation of a 'colour bar' in middle class Southall; report on the politics of Colin Jordan and his suspension from his teaching position; the refusal of the Priory tennis club in Edgbaston to admit a Jewish girl; the cancellation of Max Mosley's visit to Birmingham University 1964; focus on housing problems in Birmingham 1961; letter to a newspaper about prejudice being aroused by black men but not black women; the Indian Workers Association call on Smethwick Council to withdraw Don Finney as representative on the Commonwealth Welfare Council for the West Midlands due to his views about 'vice' in Spon Lane, Smethwick; the Indian Workers Association denounce the exploitation of immigrant workers; article reporting Jagmohan Joshi's response to racial violence by Ku Klux Klan members in Leamington, that immigrants will defend themselves; article reporting the split in the Indian Workers Association in 1967; report on a Co-ordinating Committee against Racial Discrimination [CCARD] meeting discussing the advantages of a multi-racial society, and the bad feeling caused by the campaign for immigration control in Birmingham; several articles about immigration control and immigration legislation; report that one of the members of the Sparkbrook Association is considering emigrating to Australia, 1967. |