Kamal Chunchie
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Kamal Chunchie was a Methodist Christian minister who was born in 1886 and died in 1953.[1]
Kamal Chunchie was born in Sri Lanka and by 1920 was living in the East End of London.[2] He was appalled by the way black people were treated, and he wanted to improve the social aspects of their lives. He worked in race relations in Canning Town where he founded The Coloured Men's Institute.[3][4]
References
- ^ Visram, Rozina. "Chunchie, Kamal Athon". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/71629. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Geoffrey Bell, The other Eastenders : Kamal Chunchie and West Ham's early black community (Stratford: Eastside Community Heritage, 2002) OCLC 51109078
- ^ Kamal Chunchie - The Other Eastenders (Eastside Community Heritage) Archived 2009-01-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Coloured Men's Institute from The welfare of seamen