Windrush Day
Windrush Day takes place on 22 June, remembering the day when around 500 migrants from the Caribbean arrived at Tilbury Docks in Essex in 1948.
“Britain was just starting to recover from World War Two back then. Thousands of buildings had been bombed, lots of houses had been destroyed and it all needed to be rebuilt.
In the Caribbean, lots of young men and women had served in the British armed forces because at the time, many Caribbean countries were still under British rule and not yet independent.
After the war, some of these people answered an advert to come to Britain where there were lots of different jobs to do.”
What is the Windrush Generation? - BBC Newsround
How the Windrush Generation transformed British arts and culture - BBC Bitesize
Empire and citizenship - Caribbean migration - Post-war migration from Africa, the Caribbean and Asia - KS3
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How the Windrush Generation transformed British arts and culture - BBC Bitesize
Windrush - Finding My Family: A Newsround Special - BBC Newsround
Baroness Floella Benjamin...A Windrush Story - Black History Month 2023