Black Britannia: A History of Blacks in BritainDocuments the role of Blacks in the social, economic, and cultural development of Britain from the seventeenth through the twentieth century |
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Coinciding with this mood , another line of thought was taken up by some members of Parliament ; talk of anti - discrimination bills began to be heard . In the House of Lords , Lord Silkin said " We are all against discrimination ...
Coinciding with this mood , another line of thought was taken up by some members of Parliament ; talk of anti - discrimination bills began to be heard . In the House of Lords , Lord Silkin said " We are all against discrimination ...
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Already in that year a group of twelve Labour M.P.s led by Fenner Brockway ( later Lord Brockway ) had made an abortive attempt when they sponsored a private member's bill to make illegal “ discrimination to the detriment of any person ...
Already in that year a group of twelve Labour M.P.s led by Fenner Brockway ( later Lord Brockway ) had made an abortive attempt when they sponsored a private member's bill to make illegal “ discrimination to the detriment of any person ...
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But the primary motive for the bill was not immediate or wholesale prosecution of any act of discrimination brought to the notice of the law . Its purpose was to declare discrimination wrong in principle and to throw the weight of ...
But the primary motive for the bill was not immediate or wholesale prosecution of any act of discrimination brought to the notice of the law . Its purpose was to declare discrimination wrong in principle and to throw the weight of ...
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Contents
Part | 3 |
Courtesans and Blackamoors | 5 |
Bread and Liberty in Old England | 12 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Black Britannia: A History of Blacks in Britain |
| Author | Edward Scobie |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Johnson Publishing Company, 1972 |
| ISBN | 0874850568, 9780874850567 |
| Length | 316 pages |
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