Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre
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the Resource Centre is based at Manchester Central Library
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| Named after | Ahmed Iqbal Ullah |
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| Formation | 1999 |
| Founder | Lou Kushnick OBE |
| Type | Lending library |
| Purpose | To provide educational resources about race relations and migration |
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| Coordinates | 53°28′41″N 2°14′41″W / 53.478056°N 2.244722°WCoordinates: 53°28′41″N 2°14′41″W / 53.478056°N 2.244722°W |
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University of Manchester |
| Website | www |
The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre is 'one of Europe's leading specialist libraries on migration, race and ethnicity'. Open to members of the public as well as to students and researchers, it is an open access library on race, ethnicity and migration located in Manchester, England. It actively celebrates cultures and (with its sister organisation, the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust) fosters race relations through a range of work and initiatives. The Centre is part of The University of Manchester and is located in Manchester Central Library.
The impetus to create the Centre arose from the need to find a home for the increasingly large personal collection of books and other material about race relations which had been collected since the 1960s by Lou Kushnick OBE, then Professor of Sociology (and subsequently Honorary Professorial Fellow in Race Relations) at The University of Manchester. In discussion with colleagues, Kushnick considered donating the material to the University of Manchester Library, but decided he would like it to be readily available to people outside the University as well as to students and researchers, envisaging a collection that would ‘have huge research value, but also be instrumental in celebrating cultures and combating racism.’ He approached Professor Martin Harris, then Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester, who agreed to provide rent-free space to support the initiative. The Centre was established (as the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Archive) in 1999, with Lou Kushnick as its first Director. Initially based on the university campus, the Centre had a number of homes, including at the University of Manchester’s Sackville Street Building, before moving to its present location in Manchester Central Library when that building reopened following refurbishment in 2014, making access to the Centre by members of the public more readily available than before.
The Centre is named after Ahmed Iqbal Ullah, a 13-year-old pupil of Burnage High School in Manchester, who was murdered in a playground incident in 1986. Ullah's death and the public inquiry into it highlighted deficiencies in UK race relations education of the time. The name was adopted for the Centre because Kushnick ‘wanted to send a signal’ and aimed for the material to be used ‘in outreach programmes to teachers in schools with limited resources [and] a narrow curriculum [to] encourage an environment where all children could flourish.’
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