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, then a graduate student at the

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, arranged with

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for King to meet a group of Black spokespersons and activists at the Hilton Hotel, where an ''ad hoc'' committee was formed for a movement to "agitate for social justice and oppose all forms of discrimination",Terry Coleman
"From the archive, 12 December 1964: Martin Luther King stops off in the UK"
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'' (UK), 12 December 2014. with CARD formally being launched at the next meeting on 10 January 1965. CARD's founding members included Jocelyn Barrow as well as

, politician Anthony Lester, London County Councillor David Pitt, historian C.L.R. James, Dipak Nandy and the sociologist

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''The Changing Pattern of Black Politics in Britain''
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, 1998, (p. 20). Lawyer Richard Small served as CARD's press officer.

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Thirty Years On
- Anthony Lester
Baron Pitt of Hampstead & CARD - UK Parliament Living Heritage
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