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Description: | Mark Adams was a community housing worker and anti-racist activist in the East End in the 1970s. Here, in conversation with Jamil Iqbal of the Swadhinata Trust, he recalls the terrible housing conditions in parts of Spitalfields in the 1970s. These conditions particularly affected the Bangladeshi community and were only improved after a number of community protests. Mr Adams goes on the describe some of the methods used to cajole the council into improving the conditions of socially-housed people in Spitalfields. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | Swadhinata Trust | Subjects: | Migration and Citizenship Public services Communities Power and Politics | Temporal: | 2006 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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