who was responsible for letting black people in to the country in the 1950's?

Answer 1

I think bigots should be banned from this site

Answer 2

I don't know what the motive for this question is but in the 1950s London Transport,the NHS and other public bodies did advertise for workers in the West Indies etc. It wouldn't be fair though to say that white people avoided the jobs because they were hard work,dirty or unpleasant. White people have done those sort of jobs for centuries,thankyou..
No,the reason why people didn't want the jobs was because they were lower paid. than the average job.. Black people were brought in to do those jobs and inadvertently were responsible for keeping those industries low paid.
Reading some of the other answers,I think that,unfortunately there is just as much racism coming from black people as there is the other way round.

Answer 3

ERRR! You're 250 late!
From about 1619 until 1865, people of African descent were legally enslaved within the boundaries of the present United States. The economy of the early country was made possible in large part by the free labor afforded by slavery. Around half a million Africans were brought over from Africa during the slave trade, but due to laws claiming the offspring of slaves as slaves, the slave population in the United States grew to 4 million by the 1860 Census.

The first record of slavery in Colonial America begins with twenty blacks recorded as being brought by a Dutch ship and sold to the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 as indentured servants. Three are believed to have been named Isabella, Antoney and Pedro. There is evidence that Isabella and Antoney later gave birth to a son named William. This "William Tucker" is now considered the first African American born in the English colonies in North America.

And so Colonies (WHITE PEOPLE) which eventually became the USA introduced Slavery.

But Slave trade was already a big business in many parts of the world at this same time.
Read about The West India Trading Company.
Slaves (black) were sold first into slavery by their own black people.

By the way! slavery still exist among all races.

Answer 4

The way you framed your question can be insulting.

Nevertheless I will assume this was carelessness so here goes the answer.

If you are talking about the UK then you mean the Commonwealth Immigration of the 1950s, when great numbers from within the Commonwealth migrated to Britain. According to laws at the time this was not forbidden - there was no legislation to stop this.

There were debates and proposals put before the Eden cabinet in 1955 but action was not taken at the time.

This stopped with the Commonwealth Immigration Act in 1962 which ended unrestricted entry.

Answer 5

If you mean Britain it was Winston Churchill and believe it or believe it not, the racist who made "The Rivers Of Blood " speech, Enoch Powell. They brought the migrant workers in to do menial jobs that the whites were to afraid of because most of it was hard and dirty work, such as sewer workers, refuse collecting etc, (when the dust bins had to be picked up on your shoulders and emptied into the waggon). Then when these jobs became mechanised and became easy and better paid, the whites were only too pleased to do the job thus making the the black workers surplus to requirement. At this same time Powell wanted the government to pay every black migrant a cash sum for them to return to their countries of origin. In other words Britain used these people. So when i hear the older people say that Enoch Powell was right in everything he stood for, i would urge these people to think again and study their own history of Britain. And yes, I am British, I am white which at times i am not to proud of, but most of all I am humanitarian

Answer 6

Your question really leans towards racism. BUT with you asking it you should already have the answer. But before I answer your question I want to let you know that there isn't ANY problem with black people being in this country or any other country that any black person may want to live in. But to be truthful with your question. I always thought that the black race was brought here to this country by the white race. This was done with them being slaves. Once there was justice served by abolishing slavery the black race decided to stay and live here and enjoying themselves. And this was not and is not easy as there are racist out there. BUT YOU should already know this as you sound racist. So now that being said, GET A LIFE!

Answer 7

Most Black countries were British colonise anyway. Even Asian countries were British colonise. The First Black and Asians were in the UK much before the 1950's. They even help the British during WW1 and WW2.

Learn your history.

Answer 8

In the early 1950's there was a drive to encourage workers to come to this country from the West Indies, mainly to work in Transport and the National Health Service.

These drives were actively promoted by Ernest Marples, conservative MP for Wallasey, and Minister of Transport and Enoch Powell (no relation I promise) who represented Wolverhampton and was Minister for Health.

A lot of people who claim 'Enoch Powell was right' in terms of his "Rivers of Blood' speech forget he was a prime mover in the encouraging of immigration

Answer 9

Someone who realised how irrelevant the colour of a person's skin is to anything much in the post-neolithic world. Skin colour is an evolutionary adaptation to local climate conditions. In the stone age it was important as it made a slight difference to a person's chance of survival in hot, sunny climes, and thus it was selected for.

A human population can change its skin colour in as little as 5,000 years due to selection pressure. Hence the arguments about whether the ancient egyptians were black-skinned or not are irrelevant to whether the modern egyptians are descended from them.

Nowadays these minute selection pressures make virtually no difference at all in humans.

A good example of selection pressure at work causing skin colour change is the peppered moth, a species whose skin has changed colour twice during the past two hundred years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution

Note that the selection pressure here is much more aggressive than in humans as it is based on predation rather than mere health issues. And the peppered moth has a much shorter generational cycle than humans, hence the very rapid evolution that has occurred.

Yes, I know I'm not answering the question, but I thought this information would be more useful.

Addendum: I've seen a lot of people here stating that this is a racist question. Actually it isn't, though its blunt style is suggestive of racist attitudes in the context of present social conditions. But to assume that the asker is racist is itself a form of prejudice - judgement on the basis of sparse evidence.

Answer 10

I hate to break it to you, but black people were here way before 1950. You are not doing very well in history class are you?

Answer 11

1950s??????? African slaves were exported in the 1400s, closer to the 1500s, by Spain, as presents to royalty. That got the ball rolling