It's 75 years ago since the HMT Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury on June 22 with more than 800 Caribbean passengers.
They came in answer to a Government call to the Commonwealth to help rebuild a Britain suffering labour shortages after the Second World War. From 1948 to 1971, nearly half a million came to begin new lives in jobs ranging from transport to public services and the NHS.
Yet despite being invited to settle here, many faced racism. And in 2018, it emerged hundreds had been wrongly detained, deported and denied legal rights after being falsely accused of living here illegally.
