Task 4 - The Windrush Years (1948-1998)

-Change in Black Culture
-Success in Black people
-1/2 million people from West Indies
-Black people felt like intruders
-Dope, music, colour and life
-Black people here to stay
-Britain has been transformed
-Black and British
-June 21st 1948 - Windrush Arrived in Essex
-Everything done in British schools done in black schools
-Black people bought up British
-West Indian joined in world war two
-Asked to fight for Britain
-Jamaica collany of Britain
-Hitler described Black people as jews
-People happy they were here
-They couldnt afford to make enemys with people in the same crew so they became like a family
-West Indians and the British lived and died together



-They lost their good friends
-Noel Brown entertained everyone
-When told the war had ended everyone happy
-Britains views on West Indians changed dramtically
-They didnt want them in Britain anymore
-Some Jamaicans went home
-Empire Windrush was diverted to fill up the boat
-Very few people worked in the Carrabian (economy was bad)
-The Windrush set sail on the 24th May 1948 from the Harbour in Kingston



-Trip took 4 weeks
-Arrived in Essex Tilbury Harbour - 21st June 1948
-500 Jamaicans shipped
-Britain mother country
-They wondered what would happen to them
-Seeing Chimneys they thought there was lots of jobs but they were just houses
-Housed in an old airaid shelter in Clapham Junction
-When they found a job they had to leave
-None of the new arrivals found it hard to get work as so many people had died in the war
-English people didnt like black people working
-During 1950s nearly 1/4 million West Indians arrived in Britain
-People expected a magnificent place.



-People thought Britain was grey and dismall
-People thought there were diamond pathments
-Music tastes wernt of the British
-Keep Britain White (K.B.W)
-Blacks wernt people they were donkeys
-Black popuation is here to stay
-Black people washed with oil that smelt so the British didnt like it
-New arrivals felt a growing sense of isolation
-Blacks felt like they were intruders
-Black people didnt have white friends



-Romance with white and black started to happen
-White woman left home as her parents didnt agree with their daughter dating a black man
-over 20 thousand West Indians came to England each year
-Black people were squashed into small houses that were unsafe that white people wouldnt stay in
-Blacks tried to buy their own homes



-West Indians were getting money through prostitution to get money to buy houses
-Blacks used to carry weapons to keep safe
-Whites started to get violent
-White women with black men were called "Nigga Lovers"
-People described it as an "Unforgiving time"



-Riots between black and white
-Police try to break it up
-Men from all over Britain were coming to Nottinghill to riot
-Mosely said "Dont let our country be taken over"
-Police took sides with the British even though the black were getting attacked
-Blacks fought back!
-1st September - the last riot
-9 white youths arrested for there part in the riots - jailed for 4 years
-In may 1959 a West Indian man named Kelsa Cochrane was stabbed to death by 3 teddy boys
-No one was arrested for his murder
-White people started to realise the violence had to stop
-They payed there respects to Cochrane at his funeral



-White people started to blame Mosely who they once admired
-In 1959 the general election is when everyone turned their backs on Mosely. He only got 2000 votes and retired from politics
-The Blues Party - where you can go to feel safe and cool
-New music in the 60s called SKA
-Jamaican music began to seep through. Became friday night club scenes.



-Mixing was confined to the dance floor
-Became fashionable to be seen with black people
-Good sex was what attracted white women to a black man
-Educated middle class people would want to be seen with blacks
-Black men became a fascination to rich white wives
-Christine Keeler was a call girl who had a string on West Indian lovers
-Black families were trying to live the British way of life



-Civil rights movement
-"I have a dream..."
-In 1963 in Bristol the colour bar was still a part of everyday life
-Malcom X