Pan-African Congress

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The Pan-African Congress was a series of international meetings of Black leaders and intellectuals that advanced anti-colonial struggles, racial equality, and unity among people of African descent in the 20th century.

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instanceOf Pan-African organization
international political conference series
hasActivity building networks among African and diaspora leaders
drafting political resolutions
issuing declarations
organizing campaigns against colonial abuses
hasIdeology African nationalism
Black internationalism
anti-imperialism
social justice
hasLanguage English
French
other European languages
hasLocation Accra
Addis Ababa
Brussels, Belgium
surface form: Brussels

Dar es Salaam
Johannesburg, South Africa
surface form: Johannesburg

Kampala
Kisumu
Lisbon
London, England
surface form: London

Manchester
New York City
Paris
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
surface form: Winnipeg
hasMainTheme Black unity
Pan-Africanism
anti-colonialism
racial equality
hasParticipant Amy Ashwood Garvey
Amy Jacques Garvey
George Padmore
Henry Sylvester Williams
J. E. Casely Hayford
Jomo Kenyatta
Kwame Nkrumah
W. E. B. Du Bois
hasPurpose coordinate international Black activism
oppose colonial rule in Africa and the Caribbean
promote cultural rights for people of African descent
promote economic rights for people of African descent
promote political rights for people of African descent
promote self-determination for African peoples
promote social rights for people of African descent
hasTemporalExtent 20th century
influenced African independence movements
Caribbean independence movements
civil rights movements in the United States
formation of the Organisation of African Unity

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Pan-Africanism hasNotableEvent Pan-African Congress
Pan-Africanism hasNotableEvent Pan-African Congress
this entity surface form: First Pan-African Conference
Pan-Africanism hasNotableEvent Pan-African Congress
this entity surface form: Fifth Pan-African Congress
Pan-Africanism hasOrganizationalExpression Pan-African Congress
this entity surface form: Pan-African Congresses
Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League organizedEvent Pan-African Congress
this entity surface form: International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World
George Padmore co-organizerOf Pan-African Congress
this entity surface form: Fifth Pan-African Congress