Title: The Pan-African Movement | AHA
Headings: 
The Pan-African Movement
The London Manifesto (29 August 1921)

Content: How do the authors of this statement define the major events of Europe at the time. What do they see as their own role in the future of Africa? What is their evaluation of the bulk of the African population? [From: African World Supplement, September, 1921, pp. xi-xix, "West Africa and the Pan-African Congress" reprinted in J. Ayodele Langley, Pan-Africanism and Nationalism in West Africa, 1900-1945 (Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1973), 375-379.] The London Manifesto (29 August 1921)
The United States of America, after brutally enslaving millions of black folk suddenly emancipated them and began their education, but it acted without system or forethought, throwing the freed man on the world penniless and landless, educating them without thoroughness and system and subjecting them the while to lynching, lawlessness, discrimination, insult and slander, such as human beings have seldom endured and survived. To save their own government they enfranchised the Negro and then when danger passed, allowed hundreds of thousands of educated and civilised black folk to be lawlessly disfranchised and subjected to a caste system, and at the same time in 1776, 1812, 1861, 1897, and 1917 they asked and allowed thousands of black men to offer up their lives as a sacrifice to the country which despised them. France alone of the great colonial powers has sought to place her cultured black citizens on a plane of absolute legal and social equality with her white, and given them representation in her highest legislature. In her colonies she has a wide-spread but still imperfect system of state education.