Kamal Chunchie
Kamal Chunchie was born in 1886 and died 1953.[1] As a Methodist minister, he worked in race relations in Canning Town where he founded The Coloured Men's Institute.[2][3]
Kamal Chunchie was born in Sri Lanka and by 1920 was living in the East End of London.[4] He was appalled by the way black people were treated, and he wanted to improve the social aspects of their lives.
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.)
- ^ 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
- ^ Geoffrey Bell, The other Eastenders : Kamal Chunchie and West Ham's early black community (Stratford: Eastside Community Heritage, 2002) OCLC 51109078
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