Enoch Powell made a racially charged speech shortly after the death of Martin Luther King April 4, 1968 and attacked the UK government's immigration policy. br br Addressing a Conservative association meeting in Birmingham, Mr Powell said Britain had to be mad to allow in 50,000 dependents of immigrants each year. He compared it to watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. br br Click the link to get your free chapter report today "Without Prejudice" from the free interactive ebook "People Labeled Black Have NO Future on Planet Earth (Only a Manipulated "MDSG" One By Default) -- Coming soon: August 28, 2013, which includes information from various: br br - Global experts br - Professors br - Professional observers br br and much more... br br Get your free chapter report here: br br Share on Facebook: br br Share on Twitter: br br April 20, 1968: Enoch Powell slates immigration policy from a racial point of view br br The MP for Wolverhampton South West called for an immediate reduction in immigration and the implementation of a Conservative policy of "urgent" encouragement of those already in the UK to return home. br br "It can be no part of any policy that existing families should be kept divided. But there are two directions on which families can be reunited," he said. br br In Powell’s racially motivated speech, he compared enacting legislation such as the Race Relations Bill to "throwing a match on to gunpowder". And also stated that as he looked to the future he was filled with a sense of foreboding. br br "Like the Roman, I seem to see the river Tiber foaming with much blood," he said. br br He estimated that by the year 2000 up to seven million people - or one in ten of the population - would be of immigrant descent. br br Mr Powell, the shadow defence spokesman, was applauded during and after his 45-mintue speech. br br According to C. Howard Wheeldon, who was present at the meeting where Powell gave the speech, "it is fascinating to note what little hostility emerged from the audience. To the best of my memory, only one person voiced any sign of annoyance." br br The day after the speech Powell went to Sunday Communion at his local church and when he emerged there was a crowd of journalists and a local plasterer (Sidney Miller) said to Powell: "Well done, sir! It needed to be said." br br Enoch Powell's so-called "Rivers of Blood" speech was his defining political moment, thousands of workers staged strikes and marches in support of his racially motivated point of view and he was inundated with letters from well wishers from all social classes in the UK, who shared his point of on racism. br br Despite knowledge of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech August 28, 1963 for which he had received a Nobel Peace Prize, prior to his unresolved murder April 4, 1968, and was buried 11 days before Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” speech.