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Harold Arundel Moody〔David A. Vaughan, ''Negro Victory - Life Story of Dr Harold Moody'', London: Independent Press, 1950.〕 (8 October 1882 – 24 April 1947) was a physician in London who campaigned against racial prejudice and established the League of Coloured Peoples in 1931 with the support of the Quakers. ==Biography== Moody was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1882, the son of pharmacist Charles Ernest Moody and his wife Christina Emmeline Ellis.〔("Harold Moody", Making Britain, The Open University. )〕 In 1904, he sailed to the United Kingdom to study medicine at King's College London. Having been refused work because of his colour, he started his own medical practice in Peckham, south-east London, in February 1932.〔〔John Simkin, ("Harold Moody" ), Spartacus Educational.〕 In March 1931 Harold Moody formed the League of Coloured Peoples, which was concerned with racial equality and civil rights in Britain and elsewhere in the world. He also campaigned against racial prejudice in the armed forces, and is credited with overturning the Special Restriction Order (or Coloured Seamen's Act) of 1925, a discriminatory measure that sought to provide subsidies to merchant shipping employing only British nationals and required alien seamen (many of whom had served the United Kingdom during the First World War) to register with their local police. Many black and Asian British nationals had no proof of identity and were made redundant. A devout Christian, Moody was active in the Congregational Union, the Colonial Missionary Society (of which he was chairman) and later the Christian Endeavour Union (1936).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harold Moody (physician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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