Sociology: People and Human Relations - Colour Problems and Racial Discrimination

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Reference code(s): MSS.292D/ Box 1944- 1957/file 805.9-805.93)

Title: Sociology: People and Human Relations - Colour Problems and Racial Discrimination

Date(s): 1974 - 1979

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Scope and content: This sub-series contains correspondence, reports, papers, conference proceedings, speeches, pamphlets, press releases and news clippings. The reports include those from the Select Committee on Race Relations and Immigration and the TUC Equal Opportunities Committee. Issues covered include housing, welfare, education, employment and discriminatory practices. There are also records of the charity organisations involved in anti-discriminatory policy-making and a listing of ethnic minority organisations of the period address the wide range of issues facing the Black and Asian communities. There are also records detailing trade unions charged with discriminatory practices and of not representing their members. These records include correspondence, complaint applications and reports on proceedings. There are also records related to the work of the Community and race relations committee and the TUC work on race relations.This is an extensive series and is of use to those interested in the issues facing black and Asian communities during the 1970s, the organisations created to fight discrimination and policy emanating from government and from the various branches within the TUC.

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Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Interest: Black, Asian

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Immigration

Asian peoples

Black peoples

Racial discrimination

Sociology

Ethnic groups

Interethnic relations

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Trades Union Congress

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United Kingdom