IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0372 ARA
Held at: Bishopsgate Institute
Title: Anti-Racist Alliance
Date(s): 1990-1994
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 9 boxes
Name of creator(s): Anti-Racist Alliance
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Established in November 1991, the ARA is the first Black-led, broad-based coalition campaigning to stem the rising tide of racism, anti-Semitism and support for the extreme right. The ARA is supported by over 800 organisations including many national Black and Jewish organisations. It also has the support of more than 90 MPs and MEPs from across the political spectrum, as well as thousands of individuals. The ARA organises campaigns locally and nationally against racist murders, attacks and harassment.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers and correspondence of the Anti-Racist Alliance, [1990-1994].
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
No further arrangement required
Conditions governing access:
Apply to the Archivist
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopying and digital photography (without flash) is permitted for research purposes on completion of the Library's Copyright Declaration form and with respect to current UK copyright law.
Finding aids:
Copy of handlist available in Library Reading Room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited by Mark Wadsworth, 07 November 2012.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2012