Lecba Elizier Cadet was a Haitian Voodoo priest who, in 1919 attended the Paris Peace Conference

Paris Peace Conference

Paris Peace Conference may refer to:* Paris Peace Conference, 1919, negotiated the treaties ending World War I* Paris Peace Conference, 1946 July 29 to October 15, 1946See also...

 and First Pan African Congress on behalf of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Initially, the International League for Darker People, an umbrella organisation comprising the UNIA, had planned to send Ida B. Wells

Ida B. Wells

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an African American journalist, newspaper editor and, with her husband, newspaper owner Ferdinand L. Barnett, an early leader in the civil rights movement. She documented lynching in the United States, showing how it was often a way to control or punish blacks who...

 and A. Philip Randolph

A. Philip Randolph

Asa Philip Randolph was a leader in the African American civil-rights movement and the American labor movement. He organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first predominantly Negro labor union. In the early civil-rights movement, Randolph led the March on Washington...

 as delegates, with Cadet as interpreter. But as US authorities denied both Wells and Randolph passports and visas, the UNIA's Cadet, a Haitian national, became the organisations' sole delegate. Cadet left the US at the end of February 1919 for Le Havre, returning on December 1, 1919 to New York. While in Paris, his efforts to contact official delegates was mostly unsuccessful, except for a meeting with Liberian delegate Charles D. B. King

Charles D. B. King

Charles Dunbar Burgess King was a politician in Liberia of Freetown Creole descent . He was a member of the True Whig Party, which ruled the country from 1878 until 1980...

, who refused to support the UNIAs demand that control of the former German colonies should be given to Africans and the African diaspora. Cadet's reports to Marcus Garvey

Marcus Garvey

Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH was a Jamaican publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League...

, claiming that his efforts had been sabotaged by the NAACPs delegate W. E. B. Du Bois, lead to a break between Garvey and Du Bois.