The Windrush Years Part 8

- Many White people grew angry over the violence on their streets and agreed it had to be stopped

- They blamed Mosley for the hostility and violence

- After the murder, many white people grew friendly towards the black people

- Mosley only got 2,000 votes and retired from politics

- Blues parties emerged after Notting Hill for entertainment for Black people

- ‘Ska’ a new music genre hit the scene

- The white culture took on more Caribbean music ‘Jamaicanisation’

The Windrush Years Part 7

- Black homes were targeted night after night

- Mosley supported Hitler, tried to get his political career up again after the Notting Hill incident – Do you want the blacks to take over your country?

- Mosley hyped up crowds resulting in higher resentment

- Teddy boys would beat up any black person, using objects such as bike chains

- The police took a white person’s side

- Black people had to protect themselves

- There were race attacks, someone murdered for being black

- Black people realised how vulnerable they were and how little protection they were going to get

The Windrush Years Part 6

- ‘Teddy boys’ would also beat up a woman if she was dating a black man

- There was a white riot in Notting Hill

- The white people believed that the black population were turning their own people against them

The Windrush Years Part 5

- Black people found solitude and comfort in their own clubs with their own music

- Every white man thought that every black man was after the white women, created hostility because they were also taking their women

- It may have been easy to find work but they found it really hard to find somewhere to live

- They were forced into overcrowded houses which white people would refuse

- Treated cruel if they didn’t pay their rent

- White people didn’t understand how black people could buy their own houses

- They believed that West Indians were raising the money from prostitution and racketeering

The Windrush Years Part 4

- They came to a different country from what they had dreamed/read about

- ‘Alien, strange, cold landscape’

- Black people were surprised with the English people’s indifference and ignorance towards them when they came over

- They thought they would be welcome

- White people thought the Black people had a lot of unpleasant habits

- Slogan ‘Keep Britain White’ – people grew hostility and resentment towards the Black people

- They weren’t people they were ‘Darkies’

- As the numbers of Black people grew so did the hostility

- They felt isolated and lonely

- They missed their freedom and companionship

The Windrush Years Part 3

- The Black people had no idea what was going to happen to them or their families, their excitement was tinged with fear, uncertainty and anxiety

- After the casualties from the war, Britain was desperate for Labour, so the West Indians had no problem finding work

- People used to rub the Black people’s skin to see if it would come off – insulting

The Windrush Years Part 2

- ‘They fought as men’

- West Indians popular as musicians

- When Hitler was defeated, British attitudes the West Indians changed abruptly – ‘Isn’t it about time they went back to their homes?’

- People were just putting up with them, they didn’t really want them there

- Most West Indians went back to their country after the war, but some reenlisted for further military service

- West Indians usually found work in the US when bad weather conditions destroyed their crops and income, however, new immigration laws meant that they couldn’t just go there to get work

- The young men that were in the military wanted to go back to England for the opportunities that it offered

- The people that were shipping West Indians to England were deemed irresponsible by MPs as there were no jobs waiting here for them