Today marks 75 years since a group of 500 Caribbean immigrants came to rebuild Britain's workforce in a post-war world. The passenger ship Empire Windrush transported migrants from the Caribbean to the UK on June 22, 1948.
They became known as the Windrush generation, and despite giving so much to British society, the West Indian immigrants were met with abhorrent levels of racism and prejudice. The Race Relations Act came into force in 1965 to prohibit racial discrimination, but it didn't end there.
The Windrush generation had to fight for their rights during unofficial 'colour bars', struggled to find accommodation and faced a barrage of hostility, but they remained steadfast in the face of horrendous adversity and paved the way for the multicultural British society we value today.
