Coming of Age : 1976 and the Road to Anti-Racism

PHOTOS
Above : Daily Mail reports on
the arrival of people from the
Carribean, April 29th, 1954
Above right : Nottingham 1955
: Following the ongoing dispute
to stop of the colour bar to
prevent black workers from
dirving bus in the city, the City
Council Transport commitee
came to a agreement to partially
lift the colour bar.
Middle left : newspaper
clipping from Nottng Hill 1958
right : In 1958 Colin Jordan
established the White Defence
League (WDL). in the Notting
Hill area of London in 1956.
The WDL flooded London
with anti-immigration leaflets
and posters, introducing the
slogan, ‘Keep Britain White!’ to
British street politics - abbreviated
to the initials ‘KBW’, the
slogan appeared across London
painted on walls, bridges
and other structures.
Right : Boston Din (from
Pakistan) was 26, living in St
Annes, Nottingham in 1958,
and was labelled by the press
as ‘the man alleged to have
sparked the first
Notitngham race riots’.’
Bottom Right : Guardian
report about Nottingham riots,
25 August 1958
Bottom right : Nottingham Evening
news reports on the visit
of Norman Manley to the city
of Notitngham after riots.
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