1st Edition
Book
Through Sweat and Tears - The African Caribbean Presence in Walsall
This was the first book of the WACBHP, published over 20 years ago and updated in 2017 (2nd edition) This was one of the first books of it's kind in the UK and we know from feedback that we have received, that it inspired many more books about what has now become known as "the Windrush generation".
In 1948, Britain was just starting to recover from World War II. Thousands of buildings had been bombed, loads of houses were destroyed and it all needed to be rebuilt.
In the Caribbean, lots of young men and women had served in the British armed forces because at the time, many Caribbean countries were still under British rule and not yet independent.
After the war, some of these people answered an advert to come to Britain where there were lots of different jobs to do.
