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Bangladesh Liberation Movement
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British Bengali communities united in a joint effort to galvanize support for an independent Bangladesh in 1971
1972 Expulsion Order
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President Idi Amin ordered the expulsion of Uganda’s South Asian population on 4 August 1972, resulting in many members of this displaced community coming to the UK
Mansfield Hosiery Strike
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In September 1972, 500 South Asian men and women walked out of the Loughborough-based Mansfield Hosiery Mills to challenge discriminatory employment and working practices
Imperial Typewriters Strike
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Over 500 workers, most of them South Asian, walked out of this Leicester-based firm in protest against a lack of promotion opportunities and unpaid bonuses
Grunwick Dispute
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A protest, by mainly South Asian female workers, against a lack of dignity and rights in the workplace at a film-processing plant in Willesden, north-west London
Battle of Brick Lane, 1978
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The racist murder of Altab Ali triggered a protest march from Brick Lane to Downing Street, followed by a summer of mobilization against the National Front
Murder of the Khan Family, 1981
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Arson attack on a Walthamstow house that took the lives of a woman and her three children
