| Description | Press cuttings containing articles from local and national newspapers, largely relating to demonstrations by anti-racist groups against discrimination and to race relations activities in the West Midlands during the 1960s. The file also includes a small amount of material dating from the 1970s.
Articles include: reports on the activities of right wing groups, including an item about Colin Jordan, who contested Ladywood, Birmingham, for the British Movement; the conviction of an anti-Semite with links to Colin Jordan; Ku Klux Klan attacks on the Indian community in Leamington and Jagmohan Joshi's statements in response to these attacks; march by the Socialist Unity Movement in Wolverhampton against racism to mark the first anniversary of Enoch Powell's speech; the operation of a 'colour bar' in Wolverhampton 1969; coverage of a Black Panther march 1970; the lack of an enquiry into police ill treatment of Indian Workers Association members at a demonstration in Birmingham for Harold Wilson's visit in May 1968; concern among immigrant leaders over the activities of a group in Wolverhampton called the Association of West Indian and Afro-Asian minorities; letters to the editor of the 'Birmingham Post' about the council decision to ban Colin Jordan from hiring Birmingham Town Hall, including a letter from Maurice Ludmer; report on the operation of a 'colour bar' on the hiring of school halls and similar premises for African Caribbean functions; the work of various race relations committees in the West Midlands; coverage of the strike at R. Woolf & Co Ltd rubber works in Southall 1964; several articles about the demonstration outside Rhodesia House in London 1969; relations between the British and Indian governments; the attempted prosecution of individuals and organisations under the Race Relations Act 1967; clash between police and black power movement during an anti-Vietnam war rally and reports of other demonstrations; relations between police and immigrant groups; the work of a Leeds housing director in Chapeltown with immigrant groups 1969; anti-apartheid protests against the South African Springboks visit 1970; report on Tory immigration policy; general articles about the Vietnam war in the 'Morning Star' 1967; the operation of a 'colour bar' in Leeds, and racial tension between the immigrant community and right wing groups; reactions to Enoch Powell's speech 1968; racial tension in the East End of London between the Pakistani community and the National Front during the early 1970s; general articles on the operation of 'colour bars', and housing, education and health issues affecting immigrants; left-wing protests outside Winson Green prison 1976; anti-apartheid demonstrations in Grosvenor Square 1969; immigration procedures and immigration legislation during the early 1960s; proposals to disperse immigrant communities from Birmingham to Herefordshire 1968, together with a draft letter to Dr Mackenzie, Hereford's medical officer in support of his suggestions to prevent Herefordshire becoming a 'senile' county by 2000. |