[1] Others involved as founders included John Eldred Taylor, Thomas Horatio Jackson and Dusé Mohamed Ali.
[2] In 1919, the Union briefly merged with the Society of Peoples of African Origin (SPAO), which had been founded in 1918.
[3][4] A short-term change of name to the Society of African Peoples was followed by the founder of the SPAO, Felix Hercules, becoming Secretary of the Union.
[2] Also in 1919 the APU paid for Edward Theophilus Nelson as defence counsel in the Liverpool trial of 15 black men, in the aftermath of racially motivated communal violence.
The Union's 1925 meeting was attended by Ethel Snowden and Gordon Guggisberg.