Windrush and how government responded and Brixton riots Flashcards
Windrush
492 people on board from colonies
gave all 800 million commonwealth citizens oppurtunity to come to Britain
people had heard much of Britain and were promised a better quality of life
oppurtunities
Shortage of labour
after the war
london transport recruited people
recruitment fairs
issues
segregationin areas with white and black
“teddy boys” thought they were stealing their women
overcrowding as landlords refused to rent to black people
SMEWTHICK BIRMINGHAM DANNY G - housing policy against immigrants
why was government intervention needed
factory owners reluctant to employ immigrants
too many in cities
what they did government
commonwealth immigrants act meant people had to apply for a vouvher to get to britain. To do this they has to have skills required
Then they could only move if they had family there
seen as racist
immigration act passed
permits needed for temporary UK residence.
Government assisted people in returning back to their own country
Law that filled streets with undercover police officers
SWAMP 81
Enoch Powell
Rivers of Blood speech
said immigration was a threat to British identity
Other factors
time of recession
race relations act
intended to improve relations
riots
national front march through lewisham
black people blamed for crimes
national front
supported Powell
members identified with Hitlers policies
thought white superior
law that meant officers could stop and search who they saw as suspiscious - racial profiling
SUS law more than 1000 stoppped in 3 days
simmering tension boiled over when
brutality to black man led to brixton riots
report?
scarman report
suggested institutional racism did not exist
but gave black people a voice
ended the sus law
what further degraded relations
stephen lawrence murdered
racially motivated attack
met police did not conduct proper investigation
