immigration and race

• when was the new commonwealth created

  28th April 1949
• when did the empire Windrush come to the UK

  21st June 1948
• how many people came on the empire Windrush

  802 from the Caribbean and 66 from Mexico
• by 1958 how many people had emigrated into the UK


  210,000
• what % of immigrants by 1958 were men


  75% they had the intention to send the money they earnt back home to their families
• what was the entrance and exit rate of people to the UK in 1950


  676,000 coming in to the uk and 1.32 million leaving
• when was the Notting hill riot

  august 1958
• what caused the Notting hill riot

  Oswald Mosey (leader of the fascist party) had stood as mp for Notting Hill.

  The working class and unskilled labourers were the most concerned at the influx of immigrants into the UK.

  these tensions came to a head when there was the Notting Hill carnival, which turned into a race war, with police trying (and failing) to intervene.
• when did the race relations act pass

  1965
• what did the race relations act detail

  it banned open racism

  it signposted support for the US civil rights movement

  forbids public discrimination

  limits the amount of immigration
• how many people arrived between 1951-1960


  132,000 from the west indies

  72,000 from India and Pakistan

  22,000 from west Africa

  12,000 from Cyprus

  16,000 from other countries