Catherine Impey (1847 – 14 December 1923) was a British
Quaker
Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of Christian denomination, denominations known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("theFriends") are generally united by a belie ...
activist against
racial discrimination
Racial discrimination is any discrimination against any individual on the basis of their skin color, race or ethnic origin.Individuals can discriminate by refusing to do business with, socialize with, or share resources with people of a certain g ...
. She founded Britain's first
anti-racist
Anti-racism encompasses a range of ideas and political actions which are meant to counter racial prejudice, systemic racism, and the oppression of specific racial groups. Anti-racism is usually structured around conscious efforts and deliberate ...
journal, ''Anti-Caste'', in March 1888 and edited it until its last edition in 1895.
The journal was inspired by
Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American c ...
's ''Southern Letter''. Impey visited the United States several times from 1878 and the journal focused largely on issues in America. In 1893, she formed an organisation, The Society for the Recognition of the Universal Brotherhood of Man, with the American
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells (full name: Ida Bell Wells-Barnett) (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for ...
, who visited the UK to campaign against
lynching
Lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged transgressor, punish a convicted transgressor, or intimidate people. It can also be an ex ...
. Impey became a
vegetarian
Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, insects, and the flesh of any other animal). It may also include abstaining from eating all by-products of animal slaughter.
Vegetarianism m ...
in 1879.
[Gregory, James. (2002)]
"The Vegetarian Movement in Britain c. 1840-1901"
eprints.soton.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
Impey lived in
Street, Somerset
Street is a large village and civil parish in Somerset, England, with a population of 11,805 in 2011. On a dry spot in the Somerset Levels, at the end of the Polden Hills, it is south-west of Glastonbury. There is evidence of Roman occupation. ...
.
See also
*
Alfred Webb
Further reading
* Dr Caroline Bressey, ''Anti-Caste: Britain’s First Anti-racist Journal''
synopsison ESRC website (RES-000-22-0522), accessed 27 July 2006. Also abstract from Dr Caroline Bressey in teaching programme at University of Essex
"Departmental Seminars - Abstracts and Bio-notes" accessed 27 July 2006.
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Notes
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1847 births
1923 deaths
English Quakers
People from Street, Somerset