MIGRATION
Nov 16, 2021
3 minutes
Early in the morning of 22 June 1948 a civil servant in the Colonial Office named Ivor Cummings was sent to Tilbury Docks to meet an initial shipload of passengers from Bermuda, Jamaica and Trinidad, arriving on the . He had grown up in Addiscombe, South London, where he suffered prejudice because of his skin colour, but forged a career in the civil service, and was a well-known figure in London’s black
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