Pan African Congress Manchester 1945
1945 Pan-African Congress which was held at the Chorlton Town Hall, Manchester. This building is now owned by Manchester Metropolitan University however, in choosing Manchester, the organisers of the conference said
You could say that we coloured people had a right there
because of age old connections between cotton,
slavery and the building of cities in England...Manchester
gave us an important opportunity to express and
expose the contradiction, the fallacies and the pretentions
that were at the centre of the empire.
(Fryer 1984:347-348)