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[[File:Londoners' Protest Meeting Against Racial Discrimination (leaflet)̠1943̠Warwick Modern Records Centre.jpg|left|thumb|Leaflet for a meeting at Conway Hall to protest racial discrimination, October 1943]] |
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[[File:Londoners' Protest Meeting Against Racial Discrimination (leaflet)̠1943̠Warwick Modern Records Centre.jpg|left|thumb|Leaflet for a meeting at Conway Hall to protest racial discrimination, October 1943]] |
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King was refused entry to the Land Army by its [[Essex]] County branch committee because it was believed it would be difficult to place her, as there would be objections due to her ethnicity.[{{Cite book|last1=Ginn|first1=Peter|last2=Goodman|first2=Ruth|last3=Langlands|first3=Alex|title=Wartime Farm|date=24 September 2012|isbn=978-1-84533-740-7|location=London|oclc=893653084}}][{{cite web|last=Latherow|first=Tamisan|date=18 August 2020|title=Breaking the Colour Bar - The little-known and extraordinary story of one particular land girl|url=https://merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-views/2020/08/breaking-the-colour-bar/|access-date=30 November 2020|website=Museum of English Rural Life}}][{{cite web|title=Diaspora|url=http://www.understandingslavery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=314&Itemid=226|access-date=30 November 2020|website=Understanding Slavery Initiative}}][{{cite web |url=http://www.chronicleworld.org/tomsite/archive2/01_HI_FD/11_93hom.htm |title=Blacks and the blitz: Britain's best kept wartime secret|access-date=2013-10-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101103031/http://www.chronicleworld.org/tomsite/archive2/01_HI_FD/11_93hom.htm |archive-date=2013-11-01 |url-status=dead |website=Chronicle World}}][{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wu0qQdMCdvIC|title=A Turbulent Voyage: Readings in African American Studies|first=Floyd Windom|last=Hayes|date=1 January 2000|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|via=Google Books|isbn=978-0-939693-52-8}}][{{cite journal|last1=Lindsey|first1=Lydia|last2=Wilson|first2=Carlton E.|date=1 January 1994|title=Spurring a Dialogue to Place the African European Experience Within the Context of an Afrocentric Philosophy|journal=Journal of Black Studies|volume=25|issue=1|pages=41–61|doi=10.1177/002193479402500103|jstor=2784413|s2cid=144321312}}] With support from the Holborn Trades Council,[{{Cite web |title=Trades Union Congress |url=https://wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/tav/id/4628 |access-date=2024-09-11 |website=wdc.contentdm.oclc.org |language=en}}] King presented the issue to her local representative, [[Stoker Edwards|Walter Edwards MP]], who raised the issue of racism within the Land Army at the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]].[{{cite web|date=1943|title=Londoners' Protest Meeting Against Racial Discrimination|url=https://wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/tav/id/4628|access-date=30 November 2020|website=Warwick Digital Collections}}] This, along with another [[Constantine v Imperial Hotels Ltd|racially-motivated incident]] that occurred within the same week in which cricketer [[Learie Constantine]] was denied accommodation at a London hotel, attracted widespread controversy and criticism and brought the '[[Racial segregation in the United Kingdom|Colour Bar]]' into focus.[{{Cite book|last=Werran|first=Kate|title=An American uprising in Second World War England : mutiny in the duchy|date=19 July 2020|isbn=978-1-5267-5955-9|location=Yorkshire|oclc=1147973551}}][{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KtlRAQAAIAAJ|title=Britain in the Second World War: A Social History|first=Harold L.|last=Smith|date=15 June 1996|publisher=Manchester University Press|via=Google Books|isbn=978-0-7190-4493-9}}][{{cite book|last=Kushner|first=Antony Robin Jeremy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ykQoh5ZepmsC|title=We Europeans?: Mass-observation, 'race' and British Identity in the Twentieth Century|date=1 January 2004|publisher=Ashgate|isbn=978-0-7546-0206-4|via=Google Books}}] |
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King was refused entry to the Land Army by its [[Essex]] County branch committee because it was believed it would be difficult to place her, as there would be objections due to her ethnicity.[{{Cite book|last1=Ginn|first1=Peter|last2=Goodman|first2=Ruth|last3=Langlands|first3=Alex|title=Wartime Farm|date=24 September 2012|isbn=978-1-84533-740-7|location=London|oclc=893653084}}][{{cite web|last=Latherow|first=Tamisan|date=18 August 2020|title=Breaking the Colour Bar - The little-known and extraordinary story of one particular land girl|url=https://merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-views/2020/08/breaking-the-colour-bar/|access-date=30 November 2020|website=Museum of English Rural Life}}][{{cite web|title=Diaspora|url=http://www.understandingslavery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=314&Itemid=226|access-date=30 November 2020|website=Understanding Slavery Initiative}}][{{cite web |url=http://www.chronicleworld.org/tomsite/archive2/01_HI_FD/11_93hom.htm |title=Blacks and the blitz: Britain's best kept wartime secret|access-date=2013-10-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101103031/http://www.chronicleworld.org/tomsite/archive2/01_HI_FD/11_93hom.htm |archive-date=2013-11-01 |url-status=dead |website=Chronicle World}}][{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wu0qQdMCdvIC|title=A Turbulent Voyage: Readings in African American Studies|first=Floyd Windom|last=Hayes|date=1 January 2000|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|via=Google Books|isbn=978-0-939693-52-8}}][{{cite journal|last1=Lindsey|first1=Lydia|last2=Wilson|first2=Carlton E.|date=1 January 1994|title=Spurring a Dialogue to Place the African European Experience Within the Context of an Afrocentric Philosophy|journal=Journal of Black Studies|volume=25|issue=1|pages=41–61|doi=10.1177/002193479402500103|jstor=2784413|s2cid=144321312}}] With support from the Holborn Trades Council,[{{Cite web |title=Trades Union Congress |url=https://wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/tav/id/4628 |access-date=2024-09-11 |website=wdc.contentdm.oclc.org |language=en}}] King presented the issue to her member of parliament, [[Stoker Edwards|Walter Edwards]], who raised the issue of racism within the Land Army at the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]].[{{cite web|date=1943|title=Londoners' Protest Meeting Against Racial Discrimination|url=https://wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/tav/id/4628|access-date=30 November 2020|website=Warwick Digital Collections}}] This, along with another [[Constantine v Imperial Hotels Ltd|racially-motivated incident]] that occurred within the same week in which cricketer [[Learie Constantine]] was denied accommodation at a London hotel, attracted widespread controversy and criticism and brought the '[[Racial segregation in the United Kingdom|Colour Bar]]' into focus.[{{Cite book|last=Werran|first=Kate|title=An American uprising in Second World War England : mutiny in the duchy|date=19 July 2020|isbn=978-1-5267-5955-9|location=Yorkshire|oclc=1147973551}}][{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KtlRAQAAIAAJ|title=Britain in the Second World War: A Social History|first=Harold L.|last=Smith|date=15 June 1996|publisher=Manchester University Press|via=Google Books|isbn=978-0-7190-4493-9}}][{{cite book|last=Kushner|first=Antony Robin Jeremy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ykQoh5ZepmsC|title=We Europeans?: Mass-observation, 'race' and British Identity in the Twentieth Century|date=1 January 2004|publisher=Ashgate|isbn=978-0-7546-0206-4|via=Google Books}}] |
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In an interview with [[George Padmore]], published in ''The Chicago Defender'', King reflected "I said to them, if I'm not good enough to work on the land, then I am not good enough to make munitions. No one has ever suggested that my father and brother were not good enough to fight for the freedom of England." |
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In an interview with [[George Padmore]], published in ''The Chicago Defender'', King reflected "I said to them, if I'm not good enough to work on the land, then I am not good enough to make munitions. No one has ever suggested that my father and brother were not good enough to fight for the freedom of England." |
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