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Description:'Church Must Lead Against Racial Clash: Rector'

One of the last articles to focus on the incident spoke about the involvement of the church. The article again speaks of the presence of Jamaican activist, Horace Halliburton, as an early spokesman for the West Indian community. He was joined by Mr. Wledystew Rozycki, a university trained draughtsmen, now working as a polisher, as a representative for the Poles. The article is again written in an at times patronising tone, including lines like: ‘In fluent English, Mr Halliburton, an out-of-work, machinist said…’

In addition, text such as: ‘Around them a choir of Englishmen sang ‘The Church’s One Foundation,’ and the two men forgot their loneliness’ imply that the journalist was unaware of the often implicit, instances of racism, common in many of Britain’s churches at that time. Such instances of racism have since been documented by writers such as Mike and Trevor Phillips (see, for instance, Phillips & Phillips, 1998: 149-150), and were important in influencing the development of West Indian places of worship in Britain.