Campaign Against Racial Discrimination
The Campaign Against Racial Discrimination (CARD) was a British organization, founded in 1964 and which lasted until 1967, that lobbied for race relations legislation. The group's formation was inspired by a visit by
Marion Glean, then a graduate student at the London School of Economics, arranged with Bayard Rustin for King to meet a group of Black spokespersons and activists at the Hilton Hotel,[2] where an ad hoc committee was formed for a movement to "agitate for social justice and oppose all forms of discrimination",[3] with CARD formally being launched at the next meeting on 10 January 1965.[4]
CARD's founding members included
C.L.R. James, Dipak Nandy and the sociologist Hamza Alvi.[4] Lawyer Richard Small served as CARD's press officer.[5]
References
- ISBN 1-85567-264-2(pp. 111-12).
- ^ Howard Malchow, Special Relations: The Americanization of Britain?, Stanford University Press, 2011, p. 173.
- ^ Terry Coleman, "From the archive, 12 December 1964: Martin Luther King stops off in the UK", The Guardian (UK), 12 December 2014.
- ^ ISBN 0-7453-1465-1(p. 20).
- ^ McGlashan, Colin (24 January 1965). "Integrating Britain's anti-racialists". Observer. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
Further reading
- Benjamin W. Heineman, Jr. The Politics of the Powerless: A Study of the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination. London: Oxford University Press, for the Institute of Race Relations, 1972.
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