The Color Curtain: A Report on the Bandung Conference, Richard Wright, 1956.
In 1955, Wright traveled to Bandung, Indonesia in order to cover the first Afro–Asian Conference, which brought together twenty-nine African and Asian nations whose populations collectively constituted over half of that of the entire world at the time (including much of what would soon be widely termed the ‘Third World’). He described the meeting as one of “the underdogs of the human race… class and racial and religious consciousness on a global scale.”