'Amelia's story is about standing up for your rights and making sure that you are heard.'
Amelia King’s plight reached papers in the USA ‘Calling all women, volunteers are urgently needed for services with the Women’s Land Army . Will you help?’ As the Second World War gripped the world, posters across Britain urged women to mobilise as the country’s food supply dwindled dramatically. Thousands signed up for what was termed the ‘victory harvest’. Some tended fields, others were trained to catch rats, while others wielded chainsaws and specialised in timber production.
Land workers at Frith Farm, with Amelia King seated centre-right next to the pitchfork Alfred Roberts of Frith Farm, of Wickham in Hampshire, had read about Amelia’s ordeal in the press. He was a man of kind character, who hired anyone as long as they were ‘straightforward and hardworking.’ The WLA’s refusal to let a Black woman join their ranks came shortly after cricketer Learie Constantine was denied accommodation at a London hotel.
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