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PLATFORM: 50 years on we must reflect on lessons of the civil rights campaign

The civil rights campaign is being remembered 50 years on
Professor Paul Arthur
IT was Enoch Powell who noted that everything ‘has a pre-play'. The civil rights marches of 1968 did not come suddenly out of the blue. There were antecedents. The O'Neill premiership with its desir[...]

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