Böcker i The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers-serien

Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887- 1940) led a mass movement of black social protest. This title documents a record the internal structure and political splits of the UNIA, and provides the financial history of Garvey's controversial Black Star Line steamship venture, one of the schemes that led to the financial collapse of his movement.

The Universal Negro Improvement Association, with its "Africa for the Africans" program of racial nationalism, gained in strength in the aftermath of Garvey's successful meeting in Carnegie Hall in August 1919, and culminated in its First International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World in 1920. This title deals with the mass movement.

Features a survey of Marcus Mosiah Garvey and the extraordinary mass movement of black social protest he inspired. This title brings together a wealth of documents - speeches, letters, and newspaper articles to provide a record of the period between the first and second international conventions of the Universal Negro Improvement Association.

After September of 1921, membership declined and morale in the UNIA began to weaken. The final failure of the Black Star Line resulted when negotiations with the United States Chipping Board for the purchase of the long proposed African ship collapsed in March 1922. Deals with the period of crisis in the UNIA's political and economic fortunes.

Reveals the history of Marcus Garvey and the UNIA: the aftermath of the tumultuous 1922 convention. This title demonstrates how important Marcus Garvey and the mass movement he controlled were to Afro-American history.

Charts the magnetic, controversial Pan-African leader's career from his deportation from the United States in November 1927 to his death in England in 1940. The volume begins with Marcus Garvey's triumphant welcome in Jamaica, his tour abroad, and his entry into Jamaican party politics.

Spans the great divide in the affairs of the American Garvey movement that resulted from the imprisonment of its leader - Marcus Garvey - in 1925. This work tells the story of Garvey's failed efforts to win the appeal against his conviction for mail fraud, his incarceration, and the massive grass-roots petition movement mobilized in his defense.

'Africa for the Africans' was the name given to the extraordinary movement led by Jamaican Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940). This title demonstrates the central role Africans played in the development of the Garvey phenomenon. It provides an account of how Africans transformed Garveyism into an African social movement.

'Africa for the Africans' was the name given in Africa to the extraordinary black social protest movement led by Jamaican Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940). This title presents the story of the Pan-African commercial schemes that preceded Garveyism, documenting the establishment of UNIA chapters throughout Africa.