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7 August 2024 United Kingdom Racism Antiracist crowds mobilize against threatened far-right attacks
21 March 2024 United Kingdom Islamophobia UK tells OSCE Muslims must be protected from religious hatred
11 March 2024 United Kingdom Islamophobia UK publishes report on blasphemy-related activism
25 February 2024 United Kingdom Islamophobia MCB calls for inquiry into Conservative Party Islamophobia
9 December 2023 United Kingdom Islamophobia IHRC conference examines institutional Islamophobia
1 November 2023 United Kingdom Islamophobia MCB launches Islamophobia Awareness Month
8 February 2023 United Kingdom Islamophobia Amnesty rejects Prevent review’s treatment of Muslim communities
22 June 2022 United Kingdom Racism The National Windrush Monument is unveiled
26 April 2022 United Kingdom Islamophobia Amnesty challenges defense of the Prevent programme
23 January 2022 United Kingdom Islamophobia MCB renews demand for independent inquiry into Conservative Islamophobia
5 January 2022 United Kingdom Racism A Bristol jury acquits the Colston Four
30 November 2021 United Kingdom Islamophobia Media monitoring report challenges negative representations of Muslims
20 October 2021 United Kingdom Islamophobia Muslim Council of Britain releases mosque safety guidance
25 May 2021 United Kingdom Islamophobia MCB presses for structural change after Conservative racism review
2 March 2021 United Kingdom Islamophobia MCB publishes a framework for defining and confronting Islamophobia
23 December 2020 United Kingdom Islamophobia MCB contributes to hate-crime law reform consultation
10 November 2020 United Kingdom Islamophobia British Muslim report contests pandemic stereotypes and disadvantage
30 October 2020 United Kingdom Islamophobia MCB submits evidence on persecution of Uyghur Muslims
24 August 2020 United Kingdom Islamophobia Media-monitoring report challenges unequal terrorism coverage
7 June 2020 United Kingdom Racism Protesters topple Edward Colston's statue in Bristol
19 March 2020 United Kingdom Racism The Windrush Lessons Learned Review is presented to Parliament
5 March 2020 United Kingdom Islamophobia MCB renews request for an investigation of Conservative Islamophobia
2 September 2019 United Kingdom Islamophobia Tell MAMA publishes Normalising Hatred
9 July 2019 United Kingdom Islamophobia Media-monitoring report challenges representations of Muslims
11 June 2019 United Kingdom Islamophobia Muslim advocates give parliamentary evidence on institutional Islamophobia
28 May 2019 United Kingdom Islamophobia MCB asks the equality regulator to investigate Conservative Islamophobia
29 November 2018 United Kingdom Islamophobia Tell MAMA documents the gendered pattern of anti-Muslim aggression
27 November 2018 United Kingdom Islamophobia APPG presents a racism-based working definition of Islamophobia
23 November 2018 United Kingdom Islamophobia Tell MAMA argues that definitions should center Muslim experiences
18 June 2018 United Kingdom Racism An annual Windrush Day is announced
31 May 2018 United Kingdom Islamophobia MCB publicly requests an independent Conservative Islamophobia inquiry
24 May 2018 United Kingdom Racism The government announces the Windrush documentation scheme
18 February 2018 United Kingdom Islamophobia More than two hundred mosques take part in Visit My Mosque
17 October 2017 United Kingdom Islamophobia Warsi presses government on defining Islamophobia
19 June 2017 United Kingdom Islamophobia MCB condemns the Finsbury Park attack on Muslim worshippers
5 February 2017 United Kingdom Islamophobia Visit My Mosque expands amid a hostile political climate
4 February 2017 United Kingdom Islamophobia London coalition marches against Trump’s Muslim ban
10 December 2016 United Kingdom Islamophobia London conference links Islamophobia to an environment of hate
25 August 2016 United Kingdom Islamophobia London protesters challenge French burkini bans
7 February 2016 United Kingdom Islamophobia Visit My Mosque expands to more than eighty mosques
12 December 2015 United Kingdom Islamophobia IHRC and SACC conference examines the changing face of racism
1 February 2015 United Kingdom Islamophobia First national Visit My Mosque day invites public encounters
13 December 2014 United Kingdom Islamophobia IHRC conference examines structural Islamophobia
10 September 2014 United Kingdom Islamophobia Young Muslims launch Not In My Name
26 May 2013 United Kingdom Islamophobia York Mosque responds to a far-right protest with hospitality and dialogue
21 February 2012 United Kingdom Islamophobia Tell MAMA launches a service for reporting anti-Muslim attacks
8 April 2010 United Kingdom Racism The Equality Act receives royal assent
22 March 2006 United Kingdom Islamophobia Shabina Begum’s school-dress challenge is rejected by the House of Lords
16 February 2006 United Kingdom Islamophobia The Racial and Religious Hatred Act receives royal assent
2 December 2003 United Kingdom Islamophobia Religion-or-belief employment protections enter into force in Great Britain
15 February 2003 United Kingdom Islamophobia Muslim and anti-war organizations jointly mobilize against the invasion of Iraq
24 February 1999 United Kingdom Racism The Macpherson report identifies institutional racism in policing
23 November 1997 United Kingdom Islamophobia The Muslim Council of Britain is inaugurated after nationwide consultation
20 May 1997 United Kingdom Islamophobia The Indian Muslim Federation and Waltham Forest hold an Islamophobia seminar
22 April 1993 United Kingdom Racism Stephen Lawrence is murdered in a racist attack
11 June 1988 United Kingdom Racism The Wembley concert amplifies the campaign to free Mandela
16 June 1982 United Kingdom Racism The Bradford Twelve win acquittal after a solidarity campaign
10 April 1981 United Kingdom Racism The Brixton uprising begins amid conflict over policing
2 March 1981 United Kingdom Racism The Black People's Day of Action challenges official indifference
18 January 1981 United Kingdom Racism The New Cross fire becomes a focus of Black protest
23 April 1979 United Kingdom Racism Southall mobilizes against a National Front meeting
14 May 1978 United Kingdom Racism Thousands march behind Altab Ali's coffin
4 May 1978 United Kingdom Racism Altab Ali's racist murder galvanizes Bengali organizing
30 April 1978 United Kingdom Racism Rock Against Racism brings mass protest to Victoria Park
13 August 1977 United Kingdom Racism Lewisham residents and allies confront a National Front march
15 June 1977 United Kingdom Racism The Gleneagles Agreement strengthens the apartheid sports boycott
22 November 1976 United Kingdom Racism The Race Relations Act strengthens Britain's antidiscrimination framework
20 August 1976 United Kingdom Racism Migrant workers begin the Grunwick strike
16 December 1971 United Kingdom Racism The Mangrove Nine defeat the principal riot charge
8 April 1971 United Kingdom Racism The first World Romani Congress advances international Roma self-representation
9 August 1970 United Kingdom Racism The Mangrove march protests police harassment in Notting Hill
25 October 1968 United Kingdom Racism The Race Relations Act extends protections into housing and employment
8 November 1965 United Kingdom Racism Britain’s first Race Relations Act receives Royal Assent
28 August 1963 United Kingdom Racism Bristol’s bus company announces an end to its colour bar
30 April 1963 United Kingdom Racism The Bristol bus boycott begins
26 June 1959 United Kingdom Racism A London meeting launches the Boycott Movement
30 January 1959 United Kingdom Racism Claudia Jones organizes a Caribbean carnival against racist hostility
15 October 1945 United Kingdom Racism Manchester Pan-African Congress presses for liberation
26 July 1911 United Kingdom Racism The Universal Races Congress debates racial hierarchy
23 July 1900 United Kingdom Racism The Pan-African Conference opens in London
2 February 1859 United Kingdom Racism Sarah Parker Remond explains slavery’s violence to British audiences
1 August 1838 Caribbean, United Kingdom Racism The apprenticeship system ends in British colonies
1 August 1834 Caribbean, United Kingdom Racism British colonial emancipation begins under apprenticeship
7 August 1833 United Kingdom Racism The Commons gives the abolition bill its third reading
25 March 1807 United Kingdom Racism Britain outlaws its slave trade
22 May 1787 United Kingdom Racism A British society organizes against the slave trade
15 January 1778 United Kingdom Racism Joseph Knight defeats a claim to perpetual servitude
22 June 1772 United Kingdom Racism James Somerset wins protection against forced removal