International League for Darker People

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The International League for Darker People was created on 2 January 1919 on an estate on the banks of the Hudson River owned by Madam C. J. Walker. The purpose of the organisation was to bring together African-Americans with other non-European people to pursue coherent shared goals at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919.[1]

Walker was joined by Marcus Garvey, A. Philip Randolph, and Adam Clayton Powell, Sr..

Walker initiated links between the League and the Japanese publisher Shuroku Kuroiwa.

References

  1. ^ Johnson, Benita (2007). "African-Americans and American Foreign Policy "Voices in the Wilderness: The Role and Influences of African-American Citizens in the Development and Formation of Foreign Policy 1919-1944"". The Journal of Pan African Studies. 1 (8): 33–51.