Eliezer Cadet

Initially, the International League for Darker People, an umbrella organisation comprising the UNIA, had planned to send Ida B. Wells and A. Philip Randolph 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.^[8] Cadet left the US at the end of February 1919 for Le Havre, returning on December 1, 1919, to New York.^[9] While in Paris, his efforts to contact official delegates were mostly unsuccessful, except for a meeting with Liberian delegate Charles D. B. King, who refused to support the UNIA's demand that control of the former German colonies should be given to Africans and the African diaspora. Cadet's reports to Marcus Garvey, claiming that his efforts had been sabotaged by the NAACPs delegate W. E. B. Du Bois, led to a break between Garvey and Du Bois.^[10]

Cadet went on to become a Hougan (Vodou priest) associated with the loa Damballa.^[6] He died in Port-au-Prince on 8 Dec 1995.^[5]