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Windrush Pioneers & Champions Booklet WINDRUSH PIONEERS & CHAMPIONS 70 WINDRUSH PIONEERS & CHAMPIONS © Windrush Foundation 2018 WINDRUSH The rights of Windrush Foundation are identified to be the Authors and have been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988. FOUNDATION All Rights Reserved Windrush Foundation is a registered charity that designs and delivers heritage No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by photocopying or by any electronic or projects, programmes and initiatives which highlight the African and other means, including information storage or retrieval systems, without the permission in Caribbean contributions to World War II, to the arts, public services, commerce writing of the copyright owner / publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding and other areas of socio-economic and cultural life in Britain and the or cover other than that in which it is published. Commonwealth. The London-based organisation was established in 1996 ISBN 978-0-9562506-3-6 to promote good race and community relations, build cohesion, eliminate discrimination and encourage equality of opportunity for all – placing particular emphasis on addressing issues of ‘race’/’ethnicity’, equalities and cultural Disclaimer: diversity. The organisation has a successful track-record for delivering The publishers have made every effort to include a credit alongside each image. If a rightful both local community-based projects and high-profile national learning owner identifies any of the images herein, please notify Windrush Foundation immediately. and participation activities for diverse audiences – including lectures/talks, multi-media presentations, group discussions, poetry, music, and other Book & cover design by Mervyn Weir performing arts events featuring inter-cultural and Diasporic aspects of First Published in December 2018 by WINDRUSH FOUNDATION African, Caribbean and black British histories and heritage for children and young people, families and life-long learners. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CONTENTS WINDRUSH PIONEERS 4 Windrush Foundation is very grateful for the contributions Preface David Dabydeen, Professor 82 8 84 to this publication of the following individuals: Aldwyn Roberts (Lord Kitchener) David Lammy MP Alford Gardner 10 David Pitt, Lord 86 12 88 Dr Angelina Osborne Allan Charles Wilmot Diana Abbott MP Constance Winifred Mark 14 Doreen Lawrence OBE, Baroness 90 Angela Cobbinah Cecil Holness 16 Edna Chavannes 92 Cyril Ewart Lionel Grant 18 Floella Benjamin OBE, Baroness 94 Arthur Torrington Edwin Ho 20 Geoff Palmer OBE, Professor Sir 96 Emanuel Alexis Elden 22 Heidi Safia Mirza, Professor 98 Mervyn Weir Euton Christian 24 Herman Ouseley, Lord 100 Marge Lowhar Gladstone Gardner 26 James Berry OBE 102 Harold Phillips (Lord Woodbine) 28 Jessica Huntley & Eric Huntley 104 Roxanne Gleave Harold Sinson 30 Jocelyn Barrow DBE, Dame 106 Harold Wilmot 32 John Agard 108 David Gleave John Dinsdale Hazel 34 John LaRose 110 Michael Williams John Richards 36 Len Garrison 112 Laurent Lloyd Phillpotts 38 Lenny Henry CBE, Sir 114 Bill Hern Mona Baptiste 40 Linton Kwesi Johnson 116 Nadia Evadne Cattouse 42 Mike Phillips OBE 118 Cindy Soso Norma Best 44 Neville Lawrence OBE 120 Dione McDonald Oswald Denniston 46 Patricia Scotland QC, Baroness 122 Rudolph Alphonso Collins 48 Paul Gilroy, Professor 124 Verona Feurtado Samuel Beaver King MBE 50 Ron Ramdin, Dr 126 Thomas Montique Douce 52 Rosalind Howells OBE, Baroness 128 Vincent Albert Reid 54 Rudolph Walker OBE 130 56 132 Wilmoth George Brown Rudy Narayan 134 Stuart Hall, Professor WINDRUSH CHAMPIONS Sybil Phoenix OBE 136 60 138 Alex Pascall OBE Mark Trevor Phillips OBE 62 140 Andrea Levy Valerie Amos of Brondesbury CH, Baroness 64 142 Ansel Wong Val McCalla 66 144 Anthony Hamilton Bill Morris, Lord 68 146 Arif Ali Winston Pindar 70 148 Arthur Torrington CBE Len Dyke, Dudley Dryden, Anthony Wade 72 Benjamin Zephaniah, Professor 74 Bernard Alexander Montgomery Grant 76 Carmen Munroe OBE 78 Claudia Jones 80 Darcus Howe 70 Windrush Pioneers and Champions publication features 70 emigrate. So, those who arrived between May 1945 and December men and women considered to have made significant contribu- 1947 received their support. PREFACE tions to our communities and to Britain over the past 70 years. Many of the Caribbean passengers who arrived on 22 June They are not the only ones to have done so, but Windrush 1948 at Tilbury Docks, Essex, were assisted in like manner. The hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Foundation has selected them in 2018 and will also publish the WWII RAF Caribbean personnel returned to their respective profiles of other Caribbean people in the coming years. It bases, and the 236 passengers who had made no arrangement Windrush 70, like previous commemorations, has highlighted the should be noted that about 4,000 WWII Caribbean servicemen for accommodation were housed at Clapham South Deep (like Laurent Phillpotts) and women settled in Britain after the Shelter, London. contribution that Caribbean men and women have made and continue to War ended in 1945, some returned in 1947 to the UK on the HMS make to Britain’s well-being and prosperity since the 1940s. Yet, the Ormonde and HMS Almanzora and many of them assisted Empire After the arrival of MV Empire Windrush, other ships brought Windrush passengers on 22 June 1948. Windrush Foundation hundreds of thousands of Caribbean settlers to the UK. Most contribution their ancestors have made goes back to the 1500s when considers them also as ‘Pioneers’. passengers in the 1960s and 1970s travelled on British Overseas Airways. European people settled in the Caribbean, almost wiping out the indigenous Windrush Foundation defines ‘Windrush Generation’ as the population and forcing enslaved Africans to work on plantations Caribbean people who have settled in the UK from 1945 to 1973 The so-called ‘Windrush scandal’ has highlighted the experiences and have contributed to the rebuilding of Britain after WWII. of thousands of Caribbean people whom Home Office officials They are the ones who have laid the foundation for future have denied UK citizenship rights, resulting in serious injustices In October 2017, Windrush Foundation launched Windrush 70 the Caribbean, almost wiping out the indigenous population generations: in housing, religion, economic, social, political to individuals and families. They are ‘children of the Windrush after receiving an award from Heritage Lottery Fund. Windrush and forcing enslaved Africans to work on plantations. and race relations; we stand on their shoulders. We celebrate generation’ and mainly those who arrived in Britain with their Foundation has been the leading organisation in ‘commemorat- in particular the men and women who arrived on 22 June 1948 parents before 1973 and who are considered not have produced ing and celebrating the 70th anniversary of the arrival of MV In a 1939 speech, Winston Churchill said: ‘The West Indies, two hundred years ago, bulked very largely in the minds of all having travelled on MV Empire Windrush and disembarking at hard evidence to verify their claim of having a right to remain Empire Windrush that brought to the UK hundreds of Caribbean Tilbury Docks, Essex. in the country. The British Government has said it is committed passengers who disembarked on 22 June 1948 at Tilbury people who were making Britain and making the British Empire. Our possessions of the West Indies, like that of India – the colonial to making the ‘wrongs’ ‘right’ and to ensure that all those Docks, Essex.’ Of the 1027 passengers listed on the ship’s records, ‘Windrush Champions’ has been defined as Caribbean people affected receive citizenship and compensation. It’s a ‘Home 802 gave their last country of residence as somewhere in the plantation and development, as they were called – give us the strength to, the support, but especially the capital, the who arrived in the UK after 22 June 1948 and whose work for Office scandal’ not a ‘Windrush scandal’. Caribbean: 339 from Jamaica; 139 from Bermuda; 119 from local communities and British society laid the foundation for England; 73 from Trinidad; 66 from Mexico (Polish migrants); 44 wealth, at a time when no other European nation possessed such a reserve, which enabled us to come through the great the next generation. The summary profiles below are not the The Directors of Windrush Foundation hope that ‘70 Windrush from British Guiana; 7 others Caribbean; 40 other non-Caribbean. only ones who have done so, but in this 70th anniversary Pioneers and Champions’ will assist your knowledge and struggle of the Napoleonic Wars, the keen competition of the commerce of the 18th and 19th centuries and enabled us not publication they are included because Windrush Foundation understanding of their contribution to Britain over the years. The ship has become an iconic symbol of post-war Caribbean has good knowledge of their work. The late Sam King MBE, settlement in Britain. It was what the late Sam B. King MBE only to acquire this worldwide appendage of possessions we have, but also to lay the foundation of that commercial and co-founder of the organisation, and an Empire Windrush WINDRUSH FOUNDATION intended in 1995 when he invited Arthur Torrington to work passenger, had for many years observed the contributions December 2018 with him on plans to celebrate the 50th anniversary in 1998. financial leadership which, when the world was young, when everything outside Europe was undeveloped, enabled us to they have made
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