Notting Hill race riots  

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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
The Notting Hill race riots were a series of racially-motivated riots which took place in the Notting Hill area of London, England over several nights in late August and early September 1958.

In May 1958 tensions reached a new high, which resulted in the Notting Hill race riots, and the murder of a young Antiguan man, Kelso Cochrane (by six white men who have never been charged).

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The end of World War II had seen a marked increase in Caribbean migrants to Britain. By the 1950s, white working-class "Teddy Boys" were beginning to display hostility towards the black families in the area – a situation exploited and inflamed by groups such as Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists and other fascist groups who urged disaffected white residents to "Keep Britain White".

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