Black History Fact of the Day 21

1931 saw the foundation of several black organisations including the League of  Coloured Peoples  and the African Churches Mission in Liverpool. The aim of the African Churches Mission founded by the Church of Sctoland was to provide support to black poor in Liverpool. It was run by pastor Daniels Ekarte until it ran out of money in 1949. In contrast, the League of Coloured Peoples was a political organisation concerned with social injustice and racial harmony. Its founder doctor Harold Moody also published a journal The Keys addressing some of these same issues. One of its campaigns was criticism of the unequal treatment of Black Commissioned Officers during World War Two. The organisation dissolved soon after Moody's death in 1947.

Information for this fact comes from the Oxford Companion to Black British History.

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