Task 5: Windrush

Notes:

• Trevor McDonald was once considered as 'the black news reader' now times have changed and he is consider to be be just the news reader.
• Britian 1948 was exclusively white until over half a million people from the West Indies emigrated to Britain. 
• Black people at this time felt like intruders
• Black Britain has come so far since the late 50s and they have influenced how we live in today's society.
• the black british has now become just british
• Most West Indians where brought up respecting the royal family and our culture even if they did not live in Britain 
• White british people traveled to Jamaica to round up troops for the second world war.
• The West Indian fought to be a part ofBritain 
• West Indian not only fought but they also became musicians and singers
• After the war most of the West Indians went back to their home countries
•   Sugar fields where main source of income and emigration laws changed so it was not easy to get into the USA
• 24 May 1948 - Empire Windrush set sail
• First journey was full of young men looking for work 
• Docking in Essex 
• No one from the home land knew what they where going to do once they where inBritain 
•  Let the new arrivals in an air rad shelter in east london.
• The place the black people where told where the jobs were, including; London, Manchesters 7 the WestMidlands 
•  So the white british people where amazed at the black people doing normal day-to-day work.
• 1/4 Million West Indians arrived in the UK
• West Indians Britain was going to be a beautiful Jayne Are/Shakespeare world, when the reality was much different.
• White people started to resent the black emigrants due to there habits and ways of living; for example loud music.
• White people where baffled my black people
•  The black community where felling isolated
• Black people created their own celebrities and singers within their communities. 
• Black men where represented as sex pests
• Mixed couples where frowned upon
• some White people did not like there black community using there homes and flats.
• The black people where subjected to appalling living conditions
• The Rat Men (white rent collectors) treated the black tenants poorly
• White people also did not like the fact that black people where buying and living in house next door to them.
• The white people presumed that the black population where turning to prostitution to get money even though it was far from the truth.
• Riots between whites and black due to the conflict between the communities
• The white riot of Notting Hill.