the League of Coloured Peoples
*The League of Coloured Peoples (LCP) was founded on March 13, 1931. LCP was a British civil rights organization in London that aimed to achieve racial equality worldwide, primarily focusing on Black rights in Britain.
Harold Moody, a Black British physician, was frustrated with the prejudice he experienced in the UK, from employment to obtaining a residence. Through his involvement with the London Christian Endeavour Federation, Moody began to confront employers refusing jobs to Black Britons. In March 1931, in a YMCA in Tottenham Court Road, London, Moody called a meeting with the contacts he had made over the years. He was helped by Charles H. Wesley, an African American history professor visiting Britain on a Guggenheim Fellowship, who was a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
On this night, they formed the League of Coloured Peoples (LCP). In 1933, the organization began publishing the civil-rights journal The Keys. During the Second World War, the LCP continued to highlight discrimination. Authorities organizing the evacuation of children from the big towns found it very difficult to find families who would take in colored children, and the LCP lobbied against this.
Moody died in 1947 at 64, somewhat worn out by his efforts with the League. Sometime before the LCP was dissolved, it was said to have enjoyed close contact with the London branch of the Caribbean Labor Congress led by Billy Strachan. The next President was the surgeon, Dr Robert Cole, but Cole resigned in 1949, and within two years, the League dissolved. The LCP was a powerful civil-rights force until its dissolution in 1951.
