Race relations: reports and correspondence, 1933-1964
File
Shelfmark: MSS. Perham 742
Held at the Weston Library
Contains:
- folder 1 (fols. 1-14) extracts from letters from Walter Crocker, Arthur Sheerly Cripps, and another, with memoranda by C.W.W. Greenidge and Michael Mansbridge on instances of racial discrimination in British territories, 1933-1943
- folder 2 (fols. 1-26 and item 1) correspondence of Dr Harold Moody with Malcolm MacDonald, Lugard, and Margery Perham, minutes, and other committee papers of the League of Coloured Peoples, with a copy of its report on 'Race Relations and the Schools', 1939-1952
- folder 3 (fols. 1-15) memoranda by the Foreign Research and Press Service on the racial question in a 'British-American World Order', 1941
- folder 4 (fols. 1-5 and item 1) correspondence with Norman Leys and Edith Ramsay about the racial and ethnic minority communities of Stepney, with a report on an investigation into their conditions, 1944
- folder 5 Labour Party Advisory Committee on Imperial Questions Memoranda on 'Migration within the Empire' by Creech Jones, No. 290, and 'The Colour Problem in Britain and its Treatment' by K. Little, No. 320 (fols. 1-6); speech by Michael Scott at a meeting of Christian Action, Apr 1950 (fols. 7-15); notice of an African inter-racial assembly on moral rearmament in Lusaka, 23-27 Apr 1953 (fol. 16); confidential summary of a talk by Emrys Williams on 'Coloured Workers in Britain' issued by the Fabian Colonial Bureau, 1954 (fol. 17); and a confidential report on an unidentified summer school on race relations, n.d. (fols. 18-26), 1945-1954
- folder 6 (fols. 1-39) correspondence with Philip Mason, Norman Chester, and others about the Institute of Race Relations, with copies of its reports, memoranda, and committee papers, 1951-1964
- folder 7 (fols. 1-7 and items 1-2) preliminary report on the Conference on 'Race Relations in World Perspective' and the published papers read at the conference, edited by Andrew Lind, 1954-1955
- folder 8 (fols. 1-27 and item 1) reports of the World Council of Churches on 'Racial and Ethnic Relations', 1962-1964
- folder 9 (fols. 1-7) condensed extracts from the Report of an International Socialist Study Group on the Situation of Jews in the U.S.S.R., 1964.
Dates
- Creation: 1933-1964
Extent
9 items
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MSS. Perham 742
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
Contact:
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Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk