020: Malcolm X visits Birmingham
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On the 12th February 1965, Malcolm X visited the infamous Marshall Street in Smethwick, Birmingham. Invited by the Indian Worker's Association to come and see witness the forced segregation in the areas pubs and other social settings. Marshall Street, was the street that was meant to be kept for 'whites only'. Faced with growing racial tension over immigration, a the conservative led council with MP Peter Griffiths at the helm decided, it would buy up any properties that came onto the market and let or sell them to white families only. In comes Malcolm X to witness the sorry state of affairs, only 9 days before he was assassinated.
