Patterson, Sheila2021-12-022021-12-021955Patterson, S. (1955) A recent west Indian migrants group in Britainhttp://41.86.178.5:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/16544Available in print form, East Africana Collection, Dr Wilbert Chagula Library, (EAF FOS P27.R4)One afternoon in May 1955, I went down to the south London district of Brixton, to make a reconnaissance for a study of west Indian migrants in British. As I turned off the main shopping street, I was immediately overcome with a sense of strangeness, almost of shock. The street was a fairly typical south London side street, grubby and narrow, lined with cheap cafes, shabby pubs and flashy clothing-shops. All this was normal enough. But what had stuck me so forcibly was that almost all the people in sight were black.enindianBritainMigrantArticle