<P> The First Pan-African Conference was held in London from 23 to 25 July 1900 ( just prior to the Paris Exhibition of 1900 `` in order to allow tourists of African descent to attend both events '' ) . Organized primarily by the Trinidadian barrister Henry Sylvester Williams , it took place in Westminster Town Hall ( now Caxton Hall ) and was attended by 37 delegates and about 10 other participants and observers from Africa , the West Indies , the US and the UK , including Samuel Coleridge Taylor ( the youngest delegate ) , John Alcindor , Dadabhai Naoroji , John Archer , Henry Francis Downing , and W.E.B. Du Bois , with Bishop Alexander Walters of the AME Zion Church taking the chair . Du Bois played a leading role , drafting a letter ( `` Address to the Nations of the World '' ) to European leaders appealing to them to struggle against racism , to grant colonies in Africa and the West Indies the right to self - government and demanding political and other rights for African Americans . </P>
<P> The First Pan-African Conference was held in London from 23 to 25 July 1900 ( just prior to the Paris Exhibition of 1900 `` in order to allow tourists of African descent to attend both events '' ) . Organized primarily by the Trinidadian barrister Henry Sylvester Williams , it took place in Westminster Town Hall ( now Caxton Hall ) and was attended by 37 delegates and about 10 other participants and observers from Africa , the West Indies , the US and the UK , including Samuel Coleridge Taylor ( the youngest delegate ) , John Alcindor , Dadabhai Naoroji , John Archer , Henry Francis Downing , and W.E.B. Du Bois , with Bishop Alexander Walters of the AME Zion Church taking the chair . Du Bois played a leading role , drafting a letter ( `` Address to the Nations of the World '' ) to European leaders appealing to them to struggle against racism , to grant colonies in Africa and the West Indies the right to self - government and demanding political and other rights for African Americans . </P>
where was the first pan african conference held
where was the first pan african conference held
in London
in London