Prestige Denied
The action certainly was not prompted by any fear of the effect of Carmichael's words on the local coloured population: rather by distaste for the prestige he would doubtless have earned from a virtually unavoidable prosecution under the Race Relations Act if he had remained. The measure of his inflammation of Black Power among Britain's coloured people lay in the fate of the “mass rally” scheduled for August 17, 1967, in London’s Hyde Park to protest against Carmichael’s being barred from entry to his native Trinidad. Eighteen persons turned’ up. The rally had to be abandoned. It is very significant, inci-
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31657, 18 April 1968, Page 8
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