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Global / pan-regional Pre-1900 Reserved (not yet available)

Address to the Nations of the World — First Pan-African Conference

W.E.B. Du Bois, 1900

Du Bois's address closing the first Pan-African Conference, London, July 1900. The line 'the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line' originate…

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Global / pan-regional 1900–1950

Philosophy and Opinions — Africa for the Africans

Marcus Garvey, 1923

From the first volume of Philosophy and Opinions, edited by Amy Jacques Garvey in 1923. Garvey's pan-Africanist program — the redemption of Africa as the precondition fo…

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