| Description | Campaign file largely containing newspaper cuttings, but also including statements by the Co-ordinating Committee Against Racial Discrimination concerning racial discrimination against black and Asian people in the allocation of council housing during the mid 1960s.
Newspaper cuttings focus on cases of discrimination by local authorities against immigrant communities in particularly in London, but also in Birmingham and the West Midlands. One mentions the study of Sparkbrook commissioned by Survey of Race Relations in Britain and the work of the Sparkbrook Association and its founder member Dr Molly Barrow. Another gives details of special housing programmes for immigrants proposed by the Labour Minister of Housing Richard Crossman. There are also pages from' Social Service News' August 1961 containing an article entitled 'Immigration and the colour bar' which takes the form of questions and answers challenging myths and prejudices about migrants and immigration
The file also contains other papers. These consist of:
/1 copy letter from Jagmohan Joshi on behalf of the Co-ordinating Committee Against Racial Discrimination to Richard Crossman, Minister of Housing, complaining about Smethwick Conservatives racist housing policy in asking the local council to buy houses in order to prevent black and Asian migrants from buying houses there, December 1964
/2 statement issued by the Co-ordinating Committee Against Racial Discrimination and written by Maurice Ludmer, 15 July 1968, rejecting a report issued by the General Purposes Committee of Birmingham City Council about housing and immigrants and mentioning the case of Mr and Mrs Coles. Full details of their case are attached to this statement. This case summary is closed under the terms of the Data Protection Act 1998 because it contains sensitive personal information about individuals. |