The Windrush Years Part 13

- 13 children murdered in a fire

- Black people were 3x more unlikely to find themselves unemployed than someone who was white

- If you weren’t white you were a foreigner

- Black people’s new generation created their own club scene using their own churches

- Michael Jackson and other black celebrities shown in the media

- The second generation didn’t want to fit into Britain

- White people believed that Black people would of had a limited education and so were immediately treated that way

- It was becoming accepted that many Black people would fail their education

- Black people felt that they were always held back and they always had to work harder

The Windrush Years Part 12

- Enoch Powell’s speech inflamed anti-immigrant feeling across the country

- Enoch Powell told of an old woman who was the ‘only white woman living in her street’ – “she was becoming afraid to leave her house”

- Reporters and the Newspaper Industry found no old woman to support the story – she didn’t exist

- Powell was fired

- Thatcher thought that the public jumped to conclusions too rapidly as they should have listened to the logic and reason

- 88% of people in Slough supported Powell

The Windrush years Part 11

- Supported by Radical Blacks and Liberal Whites

- John Lennon and Yoko Ono supported Michael X and RAAS and cut off their hair to show that support

- Not every Black person agreed with his views for example if you see a black man with a white woman shoot him

- The media portrayed Michael X to be a leader of the ‘Black Power’ but he wasn’t actually as he had no followers

- Michael X was not fighting for the Black people, he was finally arrested in Trinidad for murdering two of his followers

- He was found guilty and hanged

- He was a reckless and careless person no one really knew what he believed

- 1964 Race became a major factor in a British General Election for the first time

The Windrush Years Part 10

- In the mid 60s women and children came over

- They felt oppressed, discriminated against, angry

- Martin Luther King began to rise, protests/peaceful marching took to streets in America

- Bus Companies didn’t want to employ black people when there were still white people to employ

- Boycotts about no coloured bars, every man has rights

- Labour Leader Harold Wilson supported the boycotts and black people, wanted a law against racism

- Malcolm X visited Britain before he died

- Racial Adjustment Action Society

The Windrush Years Part 9

- Sex and stamina was a powerful reason as to why many white women wanted more black men

- The white people that wanted to mix with the black people were middle class, educated people

- Christine Keeler, a model, wealthy, upper class, dated a string of West Indians

- She was a call girl

- A war minister had something in common with a couple black people, a hooker

- Church ministers were resistant towards black people in their churches as they were afraid of losing their white community

- The Pentecostal church began to flourish as black people could only rely on them

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