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International League for Darker People

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ17513771 ↗
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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.

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.

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This entry incorporates text from “International League for Darker People” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.