Task 4

Windrush was a 4-part series of one hour television documentaries originally broadcast on BBC2 in 1998 to mark the 50th anniversary of the arrival in Britain of the Empire Windrush, the ship which brought the first wave of post-war West Indian immigrants.

Part 1:
On 21st June 1948 the Windrush arrived in Essex half a million immigrants came over from the carribean islands, amny of them at  this point where British Colonies. Despite their determination to stay and try to fit in wit the british nationals they felt out of place. despite feleing like they were not wanted they fought side by side with the British Army in WW2.

Part 2:
After the end of the second World War british people's attitudes changed drastically they now decided that they were no longer welcome and wanted them to go back to where they cam efrom despite all that they had done for Britain. Some Jamaicans and West Indians did eventually bow to the pressure and went home, despite their being very little work in their homeland and that being one of the main reasons that they came to Britain in the first place. On the 24th May 1948 the Windrush set sail from Kingston

Part 3:
The trip took about a month and arrived in Tilbury Harbour on the 21st June 1948.During the 1950's nearly 250,000 West Indians sailed across to Britain. On arrival they lived in an air raid shelter in Clapham Junction. They saw chimneys and assumed that they werre factories as opposed to houses so they assumed that there was alot of jobs for them to do, despite this initial disappointment there was many jibs avauilable to them after the war, and alot of dead soldiers there were always jobs available. British people didn't like them working with in their country however.

Part 4:
The white defence league was founded in 1957, and it urged the British people to 'Keep Britain White'. This really isaolated the black immigrants and they were mainly shunned by the British popualiton, deaspite the hostility they still reamined determined to stay in the country and tneded to be given the menial jobs and worked like animals for, usually, very poor pay.

Part 5:
At this point interracial relationships began to happen more, however this was still deeply frowned upon and white women were asked to leave their homes if they were found to be in a relationship with a Black man, (Flame In The Streets).

Part 6:
White women that dated black men were called Nigga Lovers.White people began to become violent and  black people began to carry weapons to feel safer as they constantly feared being attacked because of their race. West Indians began prostituting themsleves in order to save up and buy houses as their jobs paid very poorly.

Part 7:
The riot is thought to have started on Friday 29 August when a gang of white youths attacked a Swedish woman, Majbritt Morrison. The youths had seen her the previous night arguing with her Jamaican husband Raymond. The police sided with the whites during the riots even though they had started it and were the instigators. 9 white youths were arrested for their part in the riots and they were all jailed for 4 years. In may 1959 a West Indian man named Kelsa Cochrane was stabbed to death by 3 white males known as teddy boys, becasue they wore Edwordian style clothing. No one was arrested for his murder at  this point the people realised that the violence had to stop and many turned up to pay their respects at his funeral.

Part 8:
Mosely began to catcch the blame from the people who once admired him and in 1959 he decied to reitre after only receiveing 2000 votes. Ska became very popualr in the 60's a type of msuic that is still around today, as well as Jamaican music starrted to be played in clubs. A new party called the Blue Party emerged

Part 9:
Blacks and Whites were now aloud to mix but only on the dance floor, and all of a sudden it became fashionable to be seen with black people, especially to rich wihite wives. Black fmailies tried to adapt and live the 'typical' brithish way