Coming of Age : 1976 and the Road to Anti-Racism

Art, Activism, Race and Social Justice - 1900/1976
1925
League of Coloured People
(LCP) was a British civil-rights
organization that was founded in
1931 in London by Jamaican
Harold Moody, Peter Abrahams,
and Eric Williams with the goal
of racial equality around the
world. Although the League's
primary focus was black rights in
Britain, it also was involved in
other civil-rights issues, such as
the persecution of the Jews in
Germany.
1931
Negro Welfare
Association
Formed by Arnold Ward
and Chris Braithwatie the
NWA become a promenade
anti racist organisation
during the 1930’s.
Sulaiman Katwaroon set up the Indian Freedom Association,
later called the Indian Home Rule League and then the Indian
Freedom League. They appealed to the British working class through a
common fight against capitalism, and the Universal Negro
Improvement Association and Negro Welfare Association
were allies.
George Padmore (left) was born in Trinidad in 1902. He moved to
the United States land there he joined the Communist Party. In
1929, Padmore travelled to Moscow, where he met Rajani Palme
Dutt. He re-located to London in 1935, where he became involved
with, but never a member of, the Independent Labour Party,
collaborating with Fenner Brockway and Reginald Reynolds. In
1935, he also became close friends with T. Subasinghe, who would
later become ambassador of Ceylon.K. D. Kumria, at an Indian
National Congress rally. Swaraj House often become a venue for
protest meetings of African groups. Padmore also became a close friend
of Krishna Menon, In 1937, Padmore founded the International
African Service Bureau and in late 1944, Later ee moved to the
newly independent Ghana where he became Kwame Nkrumah's
personal adviser on African affairs.
1936
Battle of Cable Street
The Battle of Cable Street took place on Sunday 4 October 1936 in
Cable Street in the East End of London. It was a clash between the
Metropolitan Police, protecting a march by members of the British
Union of Fascists, led by Oswald Mosley, and various anti-fascist
demonstrators, including local Jewish, Irish, socialist, anarchist
and communist groups.
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