Letter from Jamaican writer and socialist, Claude McKay to Trotsky in 1922. 1919 - THE FIRST PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS Racist treatment reinforced a sense of solidarity within the Diaspora. This found ...

He organized a Pan-African Congress in February 1919 in Paris with the goal of pressuring the assembling representatives of the Versailles Peace Conference to take the future of Africa seriously, ...

He was assassinated in January 1948. Already in 1945 at the 5th Pan African Congress in Manchester, UK, there were a number of delegates who were later to bring their countries to independence.

In 1945, when World War II was drawing to a close the 5th Pan-African Congress was called in Manchester, England. Some of the conventioneers were: George Padmore, Kwame Nkrumah, W.E.B. Dubois ...