| Description | Press cuttings containing articles from local and national newspapers on some general issues surrounding racism and immigration during the 1960s, including a number of items on discrimination against several groups, including black and Asian immigrants, Jewish communities and travellers.
Articles include: short profile of Shirley Joshi, and report on a speech she gave on Race Relations at West Ham College of Technology 1967; article focusing on the problems faced by people living in Smethwick in the context of the controversy over the election of Peter Griffiths as local MP, and his discriminatory attitudes against immigrant communities living there - interviewees for this article included Jagmohan Joshi and Shirley Fossick 1964; article about the Black Power movement and Maoist influences 1968; several articles about Enoch Powell; newspaper columnist opinion pieces on questions of integration the 'race problem/race question'; tensions in areas with a high concentration of immigrants; the economic and social impact of immigration; perceived cultural differences between immigrants and host communities; case studies about problems faced by individual immigrants; restrictive immigration legislation; demonstrations by Marxist groups in 1968; coverage of the procession to a new Sikh temple in Southall attended by ten thousand Sikhs; article about the situation for black people in South Africa 1969; several articles about Jewish communities and the persecution of Jewish groups in the US and elsewhere; articles about travellers, and about discrimination against a traveller community in Balsall Heath, Birmingham 1968; claims by Rajmal Singh, president of the Coventry branch of the Indian Workers Association, that control of the organisation was in the hands of communist supporters.
The file includes a typescript paper on 'Immigrant Organisations' by Michael Dummett of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants. This was a background paper for a talk to be given Sept 1968? at Queen Elizabeth College, London, possibly as part of the IRR/RAI/BSA third annual race relations conference 'Incipient Ghettoes and the Concentration of Minorities' |