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Race relations, 1968 - 1972

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 3/76

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, publications and information papers, mainly relating to the Immigration Bill, 1971 and other legislation on immigration, including: correspondence with Mark Bonham Carter, Chairman of the Community Relations Commission, and 3rd Lord Windlesham [Minister of State, Home Office, earlier David Hennessy] on a dispute with the Oxford Committee for Racial Integration over staff appointments; comments on the Labour Party's Green Paper on citizenship, immigration and integration; statements by Liverpool Community Relations Council on the Immigration Bill, relations with the police and monitoring of school textbooks; Community Relations Commission guide to the Bill; Home Office papers on the Bill; paper by the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants on the Bill; notes from Sidney Bidwell, President of the Committee of Trade Unionists for Race Relations, on arranging meetings and a petition against the Bill; invitation from Michael Dummett, Chairman of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, for AFB to become a patron of the Council; rough notes by AFB for a speech on race relations institutions and administrations; report from Professor Eric Hawkins, Director of the Language Teaching Centre, University of York, on the York and Huddersfield English language summer schools for immigrant children; notes on entry certificates for Commonwealth immigrants, including AFB's Question in the House of Lords, June 1969; correspondence with Lord Campbell of Eskan [Deputy Chairman of the Community Relations Commission] on AFB's criticism of the Commission during a debate, July 1969; note from Mark Bonham Carter, Chairman of the Race Relations Board, on AFB's comments on the work of the Board during a debate, July 1969; correspondence with [John] Enoch Powell and others on AFB's assertion that he had never seen 'coloured' staff working in British banks; briefings from the National Council for Civil Liberties on the Immigration Appeals Bill, 1968-69 and the Race Relations Bill, 1968; rough note by AFB for his amendment to the Race Relations Bill; briefing from Equal Rights on the Race Relations Bill; correspondence with Lord Gardiner, Lord Chancellor, on the Race Relations Bill.

Dates

  • Creation: 1968 - 1972

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

Extent

2 file(s)

Other Finding Aids

Former reference: box 51 #226

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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