EVENT INFORMATION

15
Oktober
1945

Manchester Pan-African Congress presses for liberation

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📅 15 Oktober 1945 📍 Verenigd Koninkrijk

Public sessions of the Fifth Pan-African Congress brought workers, activists, and anticolonial leaders together in Manchester. Delegates demanded self-government and opposed racial discrimination. The emphasis on mass organization connected freedom from empire with economic and social power, rather than equality being limited to a small elite.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

George Padmore

Kwame Nkrumah

W. E. B. Du Bois

Jomo Kenyatta

Organisaties in dit Evenement

Pan-African Federation