Windrush Part 10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by4rP5cubZo&NR=1


In the mid 1960's the wives and children of the West Indian migrants came over to England. West Indian families began to look at their place within British society differently. There was a change globally as Black Americans were experiencing what the West Indians in Britain previously faced. There was a Civil Rights Movement lead by Martin Luther King. However, despite all the changes that the West Indians and Britain's thought had happened a colour bar still existed in Bristol. There was a bus boycott to help bridge the segregation, so black people could sit on buses in Bristol. The success of this boycott ensured that no laws against racism existed in Britain. The Labour Party leader Harold Wilson, at the time was in support of this boycott. Activist, Malcolm X came over to Britain and had a huge impact on its citizens, so much that one man changed his name to 'Michael X' he was part of the RAS organisation, which was set up so that citizens could know the mind of the Black community.