"Aside from the imported issue of Vietnam and a worsening climate in Northern Ireland, the biggest issue in Britain that year was racism. Led by Enoch Powell, a member of Parliament, the country was seeing a virulent strain of what the American civil rights movement called white backlash set off by the Labour governmentâs proposed Commonwealth Immigration Bill. As the British decolonized their empire, workers were being told that black and brown people from the former empire would be coming and taking away their jobs. âKeep Britain White,â was Powellâs slogan, and a number of workers groups demonstrated with this slogan. There was some amusement when a Kenyan diplomat was harassed entering the House of Commons by âKeep Britain Whiteâ hecklers who shouted, âGo back to Jamaica!â at the East African."
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Mark Kurlansky, 1968: The Year that Rocked the World (2004), pp. 153-154, ISBN 0-345-45581-9
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