Background
Morris was born in Street Andrew"s, Grenada, in 1908 and received part of his education in Barbados at Codrington College.
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Sam Morris
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Career
In 1939, he sailed to the United Kingdom, and served in the British Army for two and a half years. He subsequently became active in the League of Coloured Peoples — which was formed by Harold Moody and was concerned with racial equality and civil rights in Britain and elsewhere in the world — becoming general secretary of the organisation in 1945. Morris participated in several British Broadcasting Corporation programmes, including Calling the West Indies and Caribbean Voices.
He was a Liaison Officer to Learie Constantine in the Welfare Department of the Colonial Office during the Second World War.
In 1953 Morris left Britain for Africa and worked on Radio Ghana before becoming a private secretary and press officer to Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana for eight years, returning to the United Kingdom in 1967. He was then the Development Officer for the Midlands with the National Committee for Commonwealth Immigrants.
He later became Assistant High Commissioner for Grenada and deputy chair for the Commission for Racial Equality. He died in June 1976 in Fulham, London.
There is a Sam Uriah Morris Society that had a centre in East London with an exhibition about black history.
Membership
He lived in Hammersmith and was an active member of the Hammersmith and Fulham Council for Racial Equality.
