Ola's Work Unit 1/2 Identity : Ola's Extra Work

History

Race

In the 1950s, massive immigration and rise of racial violence, also prejudice was happening around these times. In many areas including Birmingham, Nottingham and West London have experienced rioting as white people were afraid of the black community. Some black people have been working in a country they have brought up to look up to and some have witnessed racial prejudice which they have never experienced before. The legislation had allowed people from the Empire and Commonwealth rights to enter Britain because they have carried a British passport. Under political pressure, the government enacted laws three times in less than a decade to make immigration for black people harder and harder. By 1972, legislation meant that a British passport holder born overseas could only live in Britain If they had a work permit or provide information that a parent or grandparent had been born in the UK. Children that are born to white families in the remnants of the Empire or the former colonies could enter Britain but someone that comes from black families could not. In 1954, Britain's non-white people population was low by thousands. By 1970 their numbered accurate was 1.4 million, a third of these children were born in the United Kingdom.

Feminism

In the 1750s, Women's has gone through battles to get their vote in the UK during ridicule assault, imprisonment and even death but half of the century they have been protesting peacefully with no results. By 1903 a Manchester woman named Emmeline Pankhurst created the women's social and political union. Emmelina and her suffragettes were radical, political and fearless and they have decided that the old constitutional practices of just simply petitioning and asking members of the Parliament to give them the right to vote but unfortunately it wasn't enough and they didn't listen to them. The peaceful protests had gone on for 50 years and now they have decided to turn it into action tactic which they called militancy. The suffragettes most respectful and well behaved middle-class women employed tactics that shocked society, they held the biggest demonstration in British history till 1908. After that, violence was used against the demonstrators so they threw stones to smash the windows making the point that women's lives weren't regarded as important as property in those times. The suffragettes were protesting in Parliament or at least trying to as over 1,000 suffragettes were locked up in prisons. Many of them continued their protest by going on hunger strikes and being forced by the authorities. Emily Davidson was one of these women, she been a teacher but was committed a full-time suffragette. She wrote vividly about her experience in her diary while she was in prison. By 1917, Emily Davidson staged the most dramatic and dangerous publicity stunt. The Epsom Derby was a highlight of the event as the kind and queen come to see the racing, Emily Davidson was there because the king's horse Anmar was running. As the horses rounded the bed, she slipped under the barrier and stepped in front of the king's horse and It hit her really hard which made her died four days later.