Britain’s Racist Election

When maverick Conservative Peter Griffiths won the West Midlands seat of Smethwick in the 1964 General Election following an anti-immigration campaign, it triggered one of the worst chapters in the history of British race relations. Violence, assassination attempts, and even the creation of a British Ku Klux Klan tore a community apart – and took a single street to the brink of official racial segregation. This documentary tells the story of what happened when a small town gained international notoriety.