Ida Gibbs Hunt

First Pan-African Congress convenes in Paris

📅 19 February 1919

W. E. B. Du Bois and other activists convene a congress during the Paris Peace Conference. Delegates raised colonial labor, land and political rights before imperial powers and the new League of...

Second Pan-African Congress opens in London

📅 28 August 1921

The second congress begins a series of meetings in London, Brussels and Paris. It develops demands for African representation, labor protections and an end to colonial exploitation, while the format...

Pan-African Congress demands African political representation

📅 19 February 1919

Delegates from Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and the United States met in Paris alongside the peace conference. They called for African participation in government and challenged the transfer of...