EVENT INFORMATION

23
July
1900

First Pan-African Conference opens in London

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๐Ÿ“… 23 July 1900 ๐Ÿ“ United Kingdom

Organized by Trinidadian lawyer Henry Sylvester Williams, this meeting brought activists from Africa, the Caribbean, Britain, and the United States into a shared political forum. It challenged colonial rule and racial hierarchy, helping make Black internationalism an organized political project.

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People in this event

Henry Sylvester Williams

W. E. B. Du Bois

Delegates from Africa and the diaspora

Organizations in this Event

African Association

Pan-African Conference