A mass fitness movement established in the 1930s by Mary Bagot Stack. The league's motto, ‘Movement is life’, expressed its evangelical message, though its first stated aim of cultivating ‘racial health’ indicated its imperialist, elite
A mass fitness movement established in the 1930s by Mary Bagot Stack. The league's motto, ‘Movement is life’, expressed its evangelical message, though its first stated aim of cultivating ‘racial health’ indicated its imperialist, elite premises and racist overtones. The league's membership rose to 60,000, ‘based on its judi