History - NICRA

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This was called Gerrymandering.  Also NICRA wanted a chance in the votes themselves as if you paid any rates, own more than one houses and own your own business you got more votes. This was unfair as it was the protestants were the ones who had these things and there for they had an advantage. That’s why NICRA wanted the Government to bring in a law which is fair in voting. They called it ‘one man, one vote’.

Discrimination in jobs

In another situation where the Protestants have an advantage in the jobs.  This is because the workers in employment centres are mainly Protestants and only gave the best jobs the Protestants and the low paid jobs to Catholics.  For example out 2000 workers in Harlem and Wolff only 200 were Catholics and the rest were Protestants.

Also in comparison the blacks were the same as they had the lowest paid jobs. This is because they were seen as inferior to the whites that’s why they never any government jobs.

Discrimination in housing

Well the black lived in ‘shanty towns’ compared to whites. That’s because they weren’t able to get good enough jobs to pay for good houses. This then lead to families living in the same homes. For example there would have been three families living in the same small house.

Also the Catholics were discriminated against in the same way. But also they were tortured by local police authorities. For example when a women at 19 years of age who was a protestant got a council before a catholic family of five. This then lead to rally in Tyrone at a barricade which was there to stop a march. Also in the Bogside area police came in after the apprentice boy’s march and attacked Catholics. This was for no reason and while they done it they shouted sectarian chant.

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Extremist Groups

With all of this commotion there extremist groups in both Southern America and in Northern Ireland. They the P.D. (Peoples Democracy) and the Black power. They were both being discriminated against but used more violence than peaceful. The Black Power Movement under Stokley Carmichael were a more militant group and didn’t want to be equal with the whites.

Then P.D. wanted the same as NICRA but used more violence. For example they were holding a march to Derry from Belfast. But NICRA told them to call it off as it was too tense in Northern Ireland. But ...

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