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A report by Colin Grant for London's Guardian. In a black and white photo taken in 1953, a group of nine young black men in suits wander along a street on a quiet Sunday morning in Leeds; one of them plays a guitar, the others banter. They are heading to a cricket ground for a…
Seventy-five years after the Empire Windrush brought one of the first groups of Caribbean migrants to Britain, a number of titles examine the experiences of that generation
A new BBC documentary has revealed how hundreds of black children were wrongly sent to schools for the 'emotionally subnormal' in the 1960s and 70s because of 'rampant racism'. Subnormal: A British Scandal, which airs tonight on BBC2 at 9pm, explores how students who were incorrectly deemed to have a limited intellectual ability where sent to ESN schools, which categorised them as having moderate to severe learning disabilities or being 'un-teachable'. Black children were labelled 'thick and unintelligent' because they 'couldn't speak the Queen's English', and were prevented from pu...
Last modified on Wed 19 May 2021 10.05 EDT Last year, documentary maker Lyttanya Shannon began looking for contributors for a new film on a disturbing period in British history. Her focus was the Black British children who found themselves unfairly removed from mainstream education in the 1960s and 70s. They were sent to what were known as âdustbin schoolsâ â places for those deemed âsubnormalâ. And black children were four times as likely to be sent to them as white children. So raw was their pain, Shannon tells me, that it was hard to find anyone willing to discuss...