Person1868 – 1963
W. E. B. Du Bois
African American sociologist and civil rights leader who convened the Pan-African Congress in Paris in 1919 and led the Pan-African movement
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Timed to coincide with the Paris Peace Conference, Du Bois gathered Black delegates from Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean, who called for African rights and self-government.
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- National Movements in Asia and Africa1915 – 1948
From the Hussein–McMahon correspondence to the founding of Israel — three decades in which India, West Asia, Southeast Asia and Africa, swept up in the tide of self-determination after the First World War, pressed toward independence and modernization