Did you know that when WW1 began, there were churches in the British West Indies with racially segregated seating; or that the vast majority of their populations were non-Whites – Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) people - excluded to the edges of society; kept in extreme poverty without the right to vote? And did you know by the end of WW1 a new Black pride and civil rights struggle had ignited the British Caribbean?
This is the story of that awakening: an incredible shift from loyal volunteers for King and Empire in 1914, to Black pride and mutiny by the war’s end.
MUTINY is unique among the countless documentaries and films about the First World War. It is the only time WW1’s Black British veterans have been allowed to tell their own story. By doing so they reveal a history that was suppressed, ignored and forgotten for 80 years – a landmark that shaped the parents of the Windrush Generation.
- Inspiring extraordinary eyewitness accounts of Black WW1 veterans reveal a fight for racial justice in a world at war
- Their testimonies are supported by evidence of secret documents and richly illustrated by a stunning collection of vintage photographs
- Black WW1 veterans Eugent Clark, Clifford Powell and Gershom Browne tell their incredible story – the story of the British West Indies Regiment
For further information and the official MUTINY trailer, visit: www.sweetpatootee.co.uk