Abstract
Elizabeth Allen’s successor as general secretary of the Council, Martin Ennals, took up his post in 1960. One of his special interests was the fight against racism, and in this of course he was following a well-established NCCL tradition, evident, for example, both in the Council’s work on colonial matters, and also in its vigorous opposition to the ‘colour bar’ in the 1950s. Ennals helped ensure, for example, that the Council supported Fenner Brockway MP in his repeated attempts to introduce legislation to make racial discrimination and incitement to racial hatred a criminal offence. Brockway’s Bill was especially concerned with discrimination by hoteliers and pub landlords, for it was in these cases in particular that overt discrimination had come to public attention.
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Notes
Patricia Hewitt, The Abuse of Power: Civil Liberties in the United Kingdom (Martin Robertson, Oxford, 1982) p. 191.
Nan Berger, The Rights of Children and Young Persons (Cobden Trust, London, 1967) p. 18.
Angela Kneale, Against Birching. Judicial Corporal Punishment in the Isle of Man (NCCL, London, 1973) p. 78.
Grattan Puxon, On the Road (NCCL, London, 1968) pp. 6–7.
Dermot Walsh, The Use and Abuse of Emergency Legislation in Northern Ireland (Cobden Trust, London, 1983).
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Lilly, M. (1984). 1960–74. In: The National Council for Civil Liberties. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17483-6_4
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