Pan-African Congress is held in France.

(Feb.) Held in conjunction with the Paris Peace Conference in Versailles, its purpose is to push for stronger demands for equal rights following World War I. Although the U.S. War Department only grants passports to W.E.B. Du Bois and Robert Russa Moton of the Tuskegee Institute, William Monroe Trotter attends after serving as cook on a ship to Havre, and delivers a militant list of civil rights demands. An interracial crowd of some 500 people meet Trotter when his ship lands in Boston and escorts him to the Boston Guardian office for a welcoming reception in July.