FROM EMANCIPATION TO WINDRUSH

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The Windrush Line

Recognising the contribution of the Windrush generation, who continue to shape and enrich London’s cultural and social identity today

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WINDRUSH PROFILES

Windrush Foundation - Norma Best

Norma Best

In 1944, Britain appealed to her colonies for assistance and one of the smallest was British Honduras…

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Windrush Foundation - Sam King

Sam King MBE

Harold was 18 years of age when war as declared in 1939. Hw was working at a foundry in British Guiana…

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Windrush Foundation - Aurthur Curling

Arthur Curling

In 1944, when the British government advertised in Jamaica for volunteers for the Royal Air Force against…

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Windrush Foundation - Cy Grant

Cy Grant

Cy was born in British Guiana (Now Guyana), and was 22 years of age in 1941 when he volunteered to…

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THE BEN TV INTERVIEWS

Windrush Foundation and Ben TV have partnered up to produce interviews that will give you more info about the people and time of Windrush.

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Community Champions

Jocelyn Barrow

Postgraduate studies in education brought me to England in 1959. I had been very active politically in Trinidad as a member of the …

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Sam King

I was born in Portland, Jamaica in 1926, and worked with my father on the family farm with every intention of eventually …

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Betty Asafu-Adjaye

How can we become each other’s keeper? H is the question I have been asking since I started the Mission Dine Club …

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Sonia Brown

I am a businesswoman, entrepreneur and social networker, and founded theNational Black Women’s Network (NBWN) …

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Oku Ekpenyon

As a former head of history at an inner London secondary school and having taught for 20 years, I was …

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Sybil Phoenix

I am a woman of faith, and a Christian who believes strongly in ‘service’ to others; it has been a normal practice during …

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WINDRUSH PIONEERS

"It is crucially important we remember this generation of pioneers as we are all standing on their shoulders"

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30 Jul

Hosted by Windrush Foundation at WASP Centre, Clapham, London, on 27 July 2024, historian Colin Douglas gave an excellent presentation which included the untold story of 'War in the Caribbean' during Feb 1942. More details in his new book: THE CARIBBEAN & THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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