Enoch Powell delivers the Rivers of Blood speech
1968 · Event
In Birmingham, Enoch Powell prophesies racial catastrophe from Commonwealth immigration — 'like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood'. Heath sacks him within a day; dockers march in his support; British race politics is transformed.
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