Sunday, 19 February 2012

Windrush -Part 6

- Growing numbers of black people becoming home owners, bringing over methods from the Caribbean


- Resentment against West Indians was reaching boiling point - Racial hostility soon accompanied by violence


- 'Teddy Boys' fought black people on the street they also beat up women who fell in love with black men


- 'Age of tremendous cruelty to Black people'


- Black women out early in the morning 'doing the dirty jobs' cleaning in the hospitals


- Nottingham summer of 1958 West Indians decided they wanted to fight back at the violence towards them


- After two weeks the violence subsided but violence then broke out in Notting Hill, London but this was the white people


- Nottingham Hill riots shook Britain


- 'Turning their own people against them' as a white woman started to fight against other white people offering help

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