The Campaign Against Racial Discrimination was a British organization, founded in 1964 and which lasted
until 1967, which lobbied for race relations legislation. The group's formation was inspired by a visit by
Martin Luther King to London on his way to Stockholm to receive the Nobel Peace Prize

Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...

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Its founders included politician Anthony Lester

Anthony Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill

Anthony Paul Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill, QC is a British politician and member of the House of Lords, and a member of the Liberal Democrats....

, London County Councillor David Pitt

David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead

David Thomas Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead was a civil rights campaigner and was one of the first persons of African descent to sit in the British House of Lords.-Early life:...

, historian C.L.R. James, the Caribbean pacifist Marion Glean and the sociologist Hamza Alavi

Hamza Alavi

Hamza Alavi was an academic sociologist and activist with adherence to Marxism. He was born in Bohra community in Karachi, the then British India which now constitutes Pakistan and eventually migrated to London. The focus of his academic work was nationality, gender, fundamentalism and the...

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External links

• Thirty Years On - Anthony Lester