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Immigration To England

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June 22, 1998

-- NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports that fifty years ago today, the S.S. Empire Windrush landed on the Thames near London, bringing four hundred and ninety-two immigrants from the Caribbean Islands of Jamaica and Trinidad. They were the trailblazers of a wave of immigration from around the British Empire that changed the racial make-up of the country.

 
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