The residents of Springtown Camp in Derry present a petition to be rehomed to Eddie McAteer at Stormont. Their campaign for decent housing had begun in 1946, when the Springtown US military camp was abandoned by the troops and unhomed families moved in. The camp was unfit for habitation and became increasingly crowded over time but the Londonderry Corporation refused to build new homes for the occupants. This petition followed a march in Derry and the movement is seen as the precursor to the civil rights protests to come. The occupants finally got new homes by 1967, 21 years after their first requests.