Britain today celebrated the “enormous contribution” of its Caribbean migrants, who for a long time were airbrushed from history while some were even recently threatened with deportation.
Prime Minister Theresa May attended a service at Westminster Abbey marking 70 years since the first arrivals disembark from the Empire Windrush ship at Tilbury docks, east of London.
Most of those who arrived on June 22, 1948, were from Jamaica, but also Bermuda and British Guiana, answering a call for workers to help rebuild Britain after World War II.
Tens of thousands then followed from around the British Empire, known as the Windrush generation and given free rights to live and work in the UK.
According to AFP News agency, Prime Minister May’s government this week declared they would be remembered each day on June 22 with Windrush Day, and today praised their “enormous contribution”.
