The Cardiff Coloured Men's Christian Association was a Bible study and support organisation started in 1902 in the port city of Cardiff, Wales, and mainly serving sailors from Africa, the Caribbean, the Indian subcontinent, North and South America.[1]
Rev. John Hervey Boudier, a white clergyman and temperance advocate, started the Cardiff Coloured Men's Christian Association with weekly meetings in St. Mary's vestry hall.[2][3] Rev. Boudier soon founded dedicated quarters with a Coloured Men's Temperance Hotel in Cardiff, "The Moon and Stars," in 1904,[4] and with an alcohol-free public house in Tiger Bay, "The Jolly Sailor," to serve the same visiting workers, who had few other options for respectable accommodation in the city.[5][6]
At its peak, the Association counted as many as 800 members.[7][8] To raise funds for their activities, the Association held concerts and exhibitions, such as a stunt cyclist riding backwards to the Moon and Stars Hotel.[9][10]
References edit
- ^ "The Rev. J. Harvey Boudier...". Evening Express. 1903-05-06. hdl:10107/4133684 – via Welsh Newspapers.
- ^ "An 'All Black' Bible Class at Cardiff" The Sketch (December 13, 1905): 280.
- ^ "Cardiff Coloured Association". Evening Express. 1903-01-29. hdl:10107/4131912 – via Welsh Newspapers.
- ^ "Moon and Stars". Evening Express. 1904-02-01. hdl:10107/4139563 – via Welsh Newspapers.
- ^ "Cardiff Coloured Men: Temperance Hotel Opened in 'Tiger Bay'" Evening Express (February 2, 1904): 4.
- ^ "Cardiff Coloured Men". The Cardiff Times. 1904-02-06. hdl:10107/3426980 – via Welsh Newspapers.
- ^ "Welsh News and Notes" The Cambrian 28(4)(April 1908): 178.
- ^ "Africans Trained in England" The Sphere (March 21, 1908): 242.
- ^ "Cardiff Coloured Men" Evening Express (15 April 1904): 3.
- ^ "Novel Cycling Feat". Evening Express. 1904-03-31. hdl:10107/4141105 – via Welsh Newspapers.