Immigration 1939-75 EXPERIENCES
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- Immigration EXPERIENCES
- 'Colour Bar' notices
- Immigrants had to live in Britain 5 yrs before they could apply for counsil housing.
- Caribbeans: Pardner system- jpoined together to buy property
- Blamed for increased crime and disease
- barred from public housing, clubs and restaurants
- offered lowest pay and unskilled jobs
- lived in poorest accommodation in worst areas of big cities
- landlords wouldn't rent to immigrants, building societies wouldn't lend money
- 1950s -unfamiliar with Hindu, Muslim and Sikh religions
- settled in West Midlands
- 1955- strikes
- 1958 Notting Hill violence
- 1959- 2 weeks of riots
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