Harold Arundel Moody was a Jamaican-born physician who emigrated to the United Kingdom, where he campaigned against racial prejudice and established the League of Coloured Peoples in 1931 with the support of the Quakers.
12 Facts About Harold Moody
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Harold Moody was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1882, the son of pharmacist Charles Ernest Moody and his wife Christina Emmeline Ellis.
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In March 1931, Moody formed and became president of the League of Coloured Peoples, which was concerned with racial equality and civil rights in Britain and elsewhere in the world.
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Harold Moody played an important role in these events, saving many lives.
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Harold Moody died at his home at 164 Queen's Road, Peckham, in 1947, aged 64, after contracting influenza.
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Harold Moody married Olive Mable Tranter, with whom he worked at the Royal Eye Hospital in London, and they had six children.
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The house where Harold Moody lived at 164 Queen's Road, Peckham, now has a blue plaque dedicated to him that was erected in 1995 by English Heritage.
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The National Portrait Gallery, London, has a bronze bust of Harold Moody, cast in 1997 from a 1946 portrait, by his brother Ronald.
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In 2008, Stephen Bourne's short biography Dr Harold Moody was published by Southwark Council and distributed free of charge to schools and public libraries in the London Borough of Southwark.
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Harold Moody is named on the list of "100 Great Black Britons".
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On 1 September 2020, a Google Doodle celebrating Harold Moody's life was shown, marking the day on which he arrived in the UK in 1904 to pursue his medical studies.
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In 2021, Stephen Bourne's eBook The Life of Dr Harold Moody was published by Pearson Education for use in primary schools.