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

PHOTOs :
Top left Demonstration
against the 1962 Immigration
Bill, with Vishnu Sharma (fifth
from left)
right : Bristol Bus boycott April
1963
Middle left :Coordinaton Committee
Against Racial Discrimnation
(CCARD) was a federation
of immigrant organisaiotns
in Birmingham. Established by
Jagmohan Joshi in 1961 it was
sponsored by IWA, Pakistani
Workers Assoicaitons, Birmingham
University Socialists
and the West Indian Workers
Association. This image from a
demonstration in Birmingham
in Sep 1961.
Middle right : Photograph of
a demonstration against the
Colour Bar Immigration Bill in
Trafalgar Square. The demonstration
was organised by the
Movement for Colonial Freedom,
and was attended by Dr.
Orbach, John Stonehouse MP,
Laurence Parvitt MP, Mr. Pitt,
Mr. Qureshi secretary of the
Pakistani Welfare Association,
Ratta Singh president of the
Indian Workers Association
and Claudia Jones editor of
the West Indian Gazette.
Left : In April 1968, on the very
same day that the
dockers and porters marched
in support of Powell,
representatives from more
than fifty organisations came
together to form the Black
People’s Alliance (BPA), a
‘militant front for black
consciousness and against
racialism’.
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