1900-2010(4.2 Refugees from WW2 1925-48) Flashcards
What does colour bar mean?
Not allowing people with dark skin access to employment, housing or education
What are anti colonial organisations?
Groups set up to campaign for colonial independence
What does fascist mean?
Extreme right-wing nationalism
Who are merchant seamen?
Men who work on trading ships
Who was Oswald Mosley?
Leader of the BUF (Brisitish Union of Fascists)
Who were enemy aliens?
German people living in britain during WW1 and WW2
What is internment?
Imprisoning someone for political reasons
How did migrant communities react to tensions between wars
1919-year of crisis, men returned from war to find women and migrants in their jobs and migrant workers working for less wages
>instead of fighting for better wages for all, trade unions wanted ‘white’ men in work and ‘coloured’ men forced out
When was the coloured seamen order and what was it?
1925-it was when they were forced to register with the police
How did Black British people support their own community between the two world wars(LCP)
> in 1931 the LCP(League of Coloured people) was set up
by Harold Moody in Peckham
it supported members facing racial discrimination and organised community events
LCP organisation in most cities
How else did Black British people support their own community between the two world wars(Pan-African)?
> there was also a Pan-African movement unting all those of African descent after the 1900 Pan-African conference
many Pan-African congresses were held in Britain between 1919 and 1945
the 5th one in 1945 prepared the way for independece from colonial rule
When was the Battle of Cable Street?
4/10/36-demonstration in East London, anti-fascists asked the Home Secretary to ban the march instead provided 6000 officers to clear the route
>3000 blackshirts
Oswald Mosley: (BUF)
> conservative MP
turned to labour MP
formed 1932
What does the Home Secretary do instead of banning the march?
They called the police to clear the route-because they’re scared of communism which they thought the fascists were
Who is a blackshirt?
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