:Cardiff Coloured Men's Christian Association
{{Short description|Cardiff-based christian organisation}}
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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.{{cite news |title=The Rev. J. Harvey Boudier... |newspaper=Evening Express |date=1903-05-06 |hdl=10107/4133684 |hdl-access=free |via=Welsh Newspapers}}
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.[https://books.google.com/books?id=BoE4AQAAMAAJ&dq=Cardiff%20Coloured%20Men's%20Christian%20Association&pg=PA280 "An 'All Black' Bible Class at Cardiff"] The Sketch (December 13, 1905): 280.{{cite news |title=Cardiff Coloured Association |newspaper=Evening Express |date=1903-01-29 |hdl=10107/4131912 |hdl-access=free |via=Welsh Newspapers}} Rev. Boudier soon founded dedicated quarters with a Coloured Men's Temperance Hotel in Cardiff, "The Moon and Stars," in 1904,{{cite news |title=Moon and Stars |newspaper=Evening Express |date=1904-02-01 |hdl=10107/4139563 |hdl-access=free |via=Welsh Newspapers}} 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.[http://newspapers.library.wales/view/4139584/4139588/148/ "Cardiff Coloured Men: Temperance Hotel Opened in 'Tiger Bay'"] Evening Express (February 2, 1904): 4.{{cite news |title=Cardiff Coloured Men |newspaper=The Cardiff Times |date=1904-02-06 |hdl=10107/3426980 |hdl-access=free |via=Welsh Newspapers}}
At its peak, the Association counted as many as 800 members.[https://books.google.com/books?id=23oOAQAAMAAJ&dq=The%20Cambrian&pg=PA176 "Welsh News and Notes"] The Cambrian 28(4)(April 1908): 178.[https://books.google.com/books?id=YFVJAQAAMAAJ&dq=Cardiff%20Coloured%20Men%20Christian%20Association&pg=PA242 "Africans Trained in England"] The Sphere (March 21, 1908): 242. 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.[http://newspapers.library.wales/view/4141411/4141414/51/ "Cardiff Coloured Men"] Evening Express (15 April 1904): 3.{{cite news |title=Novel Cycling Feat |newspaper=Evening Express |date=1904-03-31 |hdl=10107/4141105 |hdl-access=free |via=Welsh Newspapers}}