Comments by "Jennifer Bate" (@jenniferbate9682) on "More revelations about the role of black people in British history from a new children’s book…" video.

There were no black children here in London during the Second World War. I was here as a tiny baby and later my school had no black children in fact, the first time I saw a black African person was when I was about seven years old, while I was out on a bus going shopping to Brixton with my mother. That was just one black person…I didn’t see any more until my secondary school and there we had one Nigerian friend who was in our year. She was the only person of colour until an explosion of many pupils entered the school from Jamaica, and this was because my school was nearer to the Brixton area where many settled in the late 50’s. Unfortunately, I witnessed many fights between them in the school, something that had never occurred before, and sadly later in the late 60’s, the school had to close. It was no longer a true comprehensive and had become very rough, many teachers just left and the education had failed.
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@mattadders9819 Dick Sheppard School.
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