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Word: sohan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bans discrimination in employment, schools and housing, and empowers a Commission for Racial Equality to investigate violations. In its first successful action, which came only last November, the CRE ordered a Birmingham restaurant to stop refusing nonwhite customers. The CRE has also acted to help individuals like Sohan Singh Saggu, a Leeds factory worker of Asian ancestry who was forced to build a 6-ft. hardboard partition around his lathe because fellow workers were continually spitting on him. After the CRE intervened, the factory promised to halt the abuse, and Saggu took down his bleak little fort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Facing a Multiracial Future | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

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