Open AccessThinking Black in the Blitz: Harold Moody, the League of Coloured Peoples and its shift of Pan-African ideas in Second World War London
Author(s) -
Simeon Marty
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
esboços
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2175-7976
pISSN - 1414-722X
DOI - 10.5007/2175-7976.2021.e78269
Subject(s) - empire , league , colonialism , independence (probability theory) , politics , capital (architecture) , war of independence , british empire , ancient history , world war ii , economic history , history , first world war , sociology , law , political science , statistics , physics , mathematics , astronomy , military service
London, as the capital of the British Empire, was the centre for imperial structures and networks in the middle of the 20th century. The city enabled and regulated the transport of people, ideas and wealth. Similarly, it offered space for the development of ideas and became a venue for the critique of colonialism. This article examines how the London-based Black pressure group League of Coloured Peoples shifted its political vision from moderate reforms for equal rights for all inhabitants of the British Empire towards Pan-African forms of independence beyond the concept of independent nation states for British Colonies in Africa and the West Indies during the Second World War and its immediate aftermath.