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Notting Hill, c1948–c1970

Racism and policing

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Overview

The colour bar, complaints about police handling of attacks, the Morrison row and the riots of August 1958, how residents responded, the sentences, the murder of Kelso Cochrane and the funeral, and Mosley's 1959 campaign.

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Key term

What incident set off the Notting Hill Riots in August 1958?

Key term

Describe what happened in Notting Hill between 30 August and 5 September 1958.

Key term

How did Caribbean residents respond while the attacks of 1958 were going on?

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  1. 1

    What was the colour bar?

    Model answer

    The everyday refusal of rooms, jobs, pub service and club entry to Black people, which was not against the law in 1950s Britain.

  2. 2

    What complaint did Caribbean residents make about the way the police handled attacks on them?

    Model answer

    That officers played the attacks down as ordinary hooliganism, made few arrests and doubted the victims' accounts.

  3. 3

    What incident set off the Notting Hill Riots in August 1958?

    Model answer

    A public row between Majbritt Morrison, a white Swedish woman, and her Jamaican husband Raymond Morrison, which a white crowd took up against her the following night.

  4. 4

    Describe what happened in Notting Hill between 30 August and 5 September 1958.

    Model answer

    Crowds of white youths, at times several hundred strong, attacked the homes of West Indian residents with iron bars, bottles and petrol bombs.

  5. 5

    How did Caribbean residents respond while the attacks of 1958 were going on?

    Model answer

    Many barricaded their houses, and some organised themselves to fight back when no police protection came.

  6. 6

    How did the courts deal with the white youths who attacked West Indian men in Notting Hill in 1958?

    Model answer

    Nine white youths were sentenced to four years in prison by a judge who publicly condemned what they had done.

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