Biography
J. Holmes Smith was a former Methodist missionary in India and a cofounder of the interracial Harlem Ashram. Police arrested him outside the British Embassy on February 22, 1943 while he picketed for the release of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. Smith and Ralph Templin announced that they would conduct a hunger strike in jail.
Photo credit
Missionaries jailed in India protest at Embassy: 1943, Washington Area Spark Flickr archive. Portrait crop from the documentary photograph; used with permission.
