Faced with overwhelming unemployment during the post-war period, hundreds of thousands of West Indian people relocated to Britain between 1948 and 1970. These Caribbean immigrants, known as the Windrush Generation, were subjected to years of hostile treatment: they were illegally deport, wrongly arrested, denied housing, work, and benefits usually accessible to citizens and were subjected to racist verbal and physical attacks by white Britons. Some relief would come 1968, when the Race Relations Act made it illegal to refuse housing, employment or public service to a person on the grounds of colour,...