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Windrush

Episode 2: Intolerance

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC History Channel

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Documentary series tracing the changes brought about since the first major influx of people from the Caribbean to Britain. The 1959 Notting Hill riots saw the murder of Kelso Cochrane, the first acknowledged racial killing in Britain. But the story is not all bleak. Against increasing racial division came the black churches, the growth of communities and the beginning of the fight to be recognised. Show less

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