While British imperial authorities introduced the game to the colonies, they made little attempt to expand it, especially in colonial regions like India and the West Indies, where the subjects of the empire were primarily non-white. Playing cricket became a symbol of superior social and racial position in this country, and Afro-Caribbeans were prevented from engaging in organized club cricket, which was still controlled by white plantation owners and their servants. The first non-white club in the West Indies was founded near the end of the nineteenth century, and its members were light-skinned mulattos as well. So, while black people played a lot of informal cricket on beaches, in back alleys, and in parks, white elites dominated club cricket until the 1930s. The fact that England and the other white commonwealth countries, Australia and New Zealand, continued to play Test cricket with South Africa, a racist state that practiced racial segregation that, among other things, barred non-whites (who made up the majority of South Africa's population) from representing the country in Test matches, demonstrates the colonial flavor of world cricket during the 1950s and 1960s. Test-playing nations such as India, Pakistan, and the West Indies boycotted South Africa, but they lacked sufficient clout in the International Cricket Council (ICC) to prevent the country from participating in Test cricket. That only happened when political pressure from newly decolonized Asian and African nations, allied with liberal sentiment in the United Kingdom, prompted the English cricket authorities to cancel a tour by South Africa in 1970.