Mark Lennox

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Its report of 17 December 1953 makes for shocking reading today. It suggested that ‘coloured workers’ struggled to find employment because of their ‘irresponsibility, quarrelsomeness and lack of discipline’ and stated that black men were ‘slow mentally’ and in general ‘not up to the standards required by British employers’.
Black and British: A Forgotten History, from the acclaimed historian and star of 'Celebrity Traitors'
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