In 1955, the secretary of the West India Committee in London helped Prescod secure a job as a switchboard operator in his office and an audition at the BBC.
[15] During her stage career, Prescod was a member of London's National Theatre Company,[16][4] then based at the Old Vic, and was cast as Tituba in the 1965 production of The Crucible.
[18] She played an active role alongside Claudia Jones,[19] and was involved in organising the March on Washington solidarity demonstration in London on 31 August 1963.
Prescod was among the Black artistes in England who supported Claudia Jones's appeals for funds for the West Indian Gazette by organising and performing at fundraising concerts.
[22] Prescod is the subject of a chapter written by Obi B. Egbuna, the Nigerian-born novelist, playwright and political activist, in his non-fiction work titled Black Candle at Christmas.
"[25] Colin Prescod situates his mother's legacy within that of the wider community of performing artists and intellectuals who came from the West Indies/Caribbean to Britain,[26] describing the biographical pamphlet as an "archival teaser" since there are many such life stories yet to be formally archived (including, as he observes, those of Nadia Cattouse, Earl Cameron and Errol John):[25] "This little piece of history ... is part and parcel of the stir caused by 'the West Indian generation' as the late George Lamming called them – the generation who came out of militant anti-colonial political cultures to see off Empire and questioned the racist-Imperialism at the core of Great Britain’s colonial success story.