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If you want a nigger for your neighbour, vote Labour. -Election slogan, Smethwick, 1964
While the students awaited the visit of the American firebrand Malcolm X at the end of term, national and local events raised concerns about rising racism in England. Indeed, it is striking the extent to which, by the autumn of 1964, local, national, and international affairs had become interlinked in student politics. At JACARI's speaker meetings, talks on American segregation, South African apartheid, African independence, and British race relations got equal billing.