The 1945 Manchester Congress marked Pan-Africanism’s transition from ideologues to power

Evidence

Indeed, he was more responsible than anyone else for bringing the movement together at Manchester in 1945 for the Fifth Pan-African Congress—the last time many of them would meet as ideologues without power. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1228

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s ‘height and downfall’ arc — Manchester 1945 as the peak meeting before decolonizing leaders took power.
• CANDY: Makonnen, not Du Bois, gets credit for organizing the pivotal 1945 Congress — a fun corrective footnote.