Title: Pan-African Congress - Wikipedia
Headings: Pan-African Congress
Pan-African Congress
Contents
Background
1st Pan-African Congress
Delegates
2nd Pan-African Congress
3rd Pan-African Congress
4th Pan-African Congress
5th Pan-African Congress
Delegates
Issues addressed
Women's Contributions
Reception
Archives
Commemoration
The significance of the Pan-African movement and the Fifth Congress
See also
References
External links

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Pan-African Congress
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For South African political party, see Pan Africanist Congress of Azania. The Pan-African Congress – following on from the first Pan-African Conference of 1900 in London – was a series of eight meetings, held in 1919 in Paris (1st Pan-African Congress), 1921 in London (2nd Pan-African Congress), 1923 in London (3rd Pan-African Congress), 1927 in New York City (4th Pan-African Congress), 1945 in Manchester (5th Pan-African Congress), 1974 in Dar es Salaam (6th Pan-African Congress), 1994 in Kampala (7th Pan-African Congress), and 2014 in Johannesburg (8th Pan-African Congress) that were intended to address the issues facing Africa as a result of European colonization of most of the continent. The Pan-African Congress gained the reputation as a peace maker for decolonization in Africa and in the West Indies. It made significant advance for the Pan-African cause. One of the demands was to end colonial rule and end racial discrimination, against imperialism and it demanded human rights and equality of economic opportunity. The manifesto given by the Pan-African Congress included the political and economic demands of the Congress for a new world context of international cooperation. Contents
1 Background
2 1st Pan-African Congress
2.1 Delegates
3 2nd Pan-African Congress
4 3rd Pan-African Congress
5 4th Pan-African Congress
6 5th Pan-African Congress
6.1 Delegates
6.2 Issues addressed
6.3 Women's Contributions
6.4 Reception
6.5 Archives
6.6 Commemoration
7 The significance of the Pan-African movement and the Fifth Congress
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
Background
Colonial powers in Africa wanted native Africans to wait patiently for limited political concessions and better career opportunities. Due to their exclusion from the negotiations of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles – the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end – black ex-servicemen and educated urban classes became disillusioned. Because colonialism had been built on the foundation of capitalism, socialist ideas of equality and global collaboration appealed to these budding revolutionaries. A letter from Jamaican writer and socialist Claude McKay to Leon Trotsky in 1922 refers to the experience of black soldiers: