Essay On Pan-Africanism Movement

Good Evening America, this is Mashaud Strozier, a CNN news reporter, and for the celebration of Black History Month, I will be speaking to you about the Pan-Africanism decade. First, Pan-Africanism is the idea that all people of African descent should have similar priorities and be unified. This movement mostly focused on the need for shared “self-reliance,” and it can be traced back to ancient times, where it reveals the struggles against slavery, racism, and colonialism. The concepts of this movement started to spread in the mid-19th century in the United States, led by African Americans. One of the first voices for Pan-Africanism was Martin Delany. Delany believed that African Americans could not progress around whites, and suggested the idea that African Americans
W. E. B. Du Bois was an intellectual person who encouraged African Americans to study African history and culture. In the beginning of 20th century, he was well known to the few scholars who studied Africa. The second most important Pan-Africanist thinker was a Jamaican-born black nationalist Marcus Garvey. His organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), had millions of members, imagining and creating to go “back to Africa.” Garvey also owned his own shipping company called the Black Star Line and they established in part to transport blacks back to Africa as well as to facilitate global black commerce. During this time period, there was also an influential African American musician, named Louis Armstrong. He was a trumpeter, bandleader, singer, film star, and comedian. he came to popularity in the 1920s, inspiring many musicians with both his trumpet style and his unique singing. Armstrong's charming stage presence not only impressed the jazz world but all of the popular music. He recorded several songs throughout his career, such as "Star Dust," "La Vie En Rose" and "What a Wonderful