Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr.,
ONH (17 August 1887 10 June
1940), was a
publisher,
journalist,
entrepreneur,
Black Nationalist,
Pan-Africanist, and
orator. Marcus Garvey was founder of the
Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities
League (
UNIA-ACL).
Prior to the twentieth century, leaders such as
Prince Hall,
Martin
Delany,
Edward Wilmot
Blyden, and
Henry Highland
Garnet advocated the involvement of the
African diaspora in African affairs. Garvey
was unique in advancing a
Pan-African philosophy to inspire a
global
mass movement focusing on
Africa known as
Garveyism. Promoted by the
UNIA as a movement of
African Redemption, Garveyism would
eventually inspire others, ranging from the
Nation of Islam, to the
Rastafari movement (which proclaims
Garvey as a prophet). The intention of the movement was for those
of African
ancestry to "
redeem" Africa and for the
European colonial powers to leave it. His essential
ideas about Africa were stated in an editorial in the
Negro World titled “African Fundamentalism”
where he wrote:
Early years
Garvey was born in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica, on 17 August 1887, to
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Sr., a
mason, and
Sarah Jane Richards, a domestic worker and
farmer. Of eleven siblings, only Marcus and his
sister Indiana reached maturity. Garvey's father was known to have
a large library, and it was from his father that Marcus gained his
love for reading. Sometime in the year 1900, Garvey entered into an
apprenticeship with his uncle, Alfred
Burrowes. Like Garvey Sr., Burrowes had an extensive library, of
which young Garvey made good use.
When he was about fourteen, Garvey left
St. Ann's Bay for Kingston
, where he
found employment as a compositor in the
printing house of P. A. Benjamin, Limited. He was a master
printer and foreman at Benjamin when, in November 1907, he was
elected vice-president of the Kingston Union. However, he was fired
when he joined a
strike by printers in
late 1908. Having been
blacklisted for
his stance in the strike, he later found work at the Government
Printing Office. In 1909, his newspaper
The Watchman began
publication, but it only lasted for three issues.
In 1910 Garvey left Jamaica and began traveling throughout the
Central American region.
He lived
in Costa
Rica
for several months, where he worked as a
time-keeper on a banana plantation. He began work as editor for a
daily newspaper titled
La Nacionale in 1911.
Later that year, he
moved to Colón,
Panama
, where he edited a biweekly newspaper before
returning to Jamaica in 1912.
After
years of working on the Caribbean
, Garvey left Jamaica to live in London
from 1912 to
1914, where he attended Birkbeck College
, worked for the African Times and Orient
Review, published by Dusé
Mohamed Ali, and sometimes spoke at Hyde
Park
's Speakers' Corner
.
Founding and Projects of the UNIA-ACL
During his travels, Garvey became convinced that uniting Blacks was
the only way to improve their condition.
Towards that end, he
departed England
on 14 June
1914 aboard the S.S. Trent, reaching Jamaica on 15 July
1914. He founded the
Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in August 1914
as a means of uniting all of Africa and its
diaspora into "one grand racial hierarchy."
Amy Ashwood, who would later be
Garvey's first wife, was among the founders. As the group's first
President-General, Garvey's goal was "to unite all people of
African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a
country and absolute government of their own."
Following much reflection the following day and night about what he
learned, he named the organization the Universal Negro Improvement
Association and African Communities (Imperial) League."
After corresponding with
Booker
T. Washington, Garvey
arrived in the U.S. on 23 March 1916 aboard the
S.S. Tallac to
give a lecture tour and to raise funds to establish a school in
Jamaica modeled after Washington's Tuskegee Institute
. Garvey visited Tuskegee, and afterward,
visited with a number of Black leaders. After moving to New York,
he found work as a printer by day. He was influenced by
Hubert Harrison. At night he would speak on
street corners, much like he did in London's Hyde Park. It was then
that Garvey perceived a leadership vacuum among people of African
ancestry.
On 9 May 1916, he held his first public
lecture in New York
City
at St Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
and undertook a 38-state speaking
tour.
In May 1917, Garvey and thirteen others formed the first UNIA
division outside Jamaica and began advancing ideas to promote
social, political, and
economic
freedom for Blacks. On 2 July, the
East St. Louis riots broke out.
On July 8,
Garvey delivered an address, titled "The Conspiracy of the East St.
Louis Riots," at Lafayette Hall in Harlem
.
During the speech, he declared the riot was "one of the bloodiest
outrages against mankind." By October, rancor within the UNIA had
begun to set in. A split occurred in the Harlem division, with
Garvey enlisted to become its leader; although he technically held
the same position in Jamaica.
Garvey next set about the business of developing a program to
improve the conditions of those of African ancestry "at home and
abroad" under UNIA auspices. On 17 August 1918, publication of the
widely distributed
Negro World
newspaper began. Garvey worked as an editor without pay until
November 1920. By June 1919 the membership of the organization had
grown to over two million.
On 27 June
1919, the Black Star Line of
Delaware
, was incorporated by the members of the UNIA with
Garvey as President. By September, it obtained its first
ship. Much fanfare surrounded the inspection of the S.S.
Yarmouth and its rechristening as the S.S.
Frederick Douglass on 14 September
1919. Such a rapid accomplishment garnered attention from
many.
One person who noticed was
Edwin P.
Kilroe, Assistant
District Attorney in the District
Attorney's office of the County of New York. Kilroe began an
investigation into the activities of the UNIA, without finding any
evidence of wrongdoing or mismanagement. After being called to
Kilroe's office numerous times, Garvey wrote an editorial on
Kilroe's activities for the
Negro World. Garvey was
arrested and indicted for criminal libel in relation to the
article, but charges were dismissed after Garvey published a
retraction.
While in his Harlem office at 56 West 156th Street on 14 October
1919, Garvey received a visit from George Tyler, who told him that
Kilroe "had sent him" to get Garvey. Tyler then pulled a
.38-caliber revolver and fired four shots, wounding Garvey in the
right leg and scalp. Garvey was taken to the hospital and Tyler
arrested. The next day, it was let out that Tyler had committed
suicide by leaping from the third tier of the Harlem jail as he was
being taken to his arraignment.
By August 1920, the UNIA claimed four million members. That month,
the International Convention of the UNIA was held.
With delegates from
all over the world in attendance, over 25,000 people filled
Madison
Square Garden
on 1 August to hear Garvey speak.
Another of Garvey's ventures was the
Negro Factories Corporation. His
plan called for creating the infrastructure to manufacture every
marketable commodity in every big U.S. industrial center, as well
as in Central America, the West Indies, and Africa. Related
endeavors included a grocery chain, restaurant, publishing house,
and other businesses.
Convinced
that Blacks should have a permanent homeland in Africa, Garvey
sought to develop Liberia
.
The Liberia program, launched in 1920, was intended to build
colleges, universities, industrial plants, and railroads as part of
an
industrial base from which to
operate. However, it was abandoned in the mid-1920s after much
opposition from European powers with interests in Liberia. In
response to suggestions that he wanted to take all Americans of
African ancestry back to Africa, he wrote,
"We do not want all the Negroes in Africa. Some are no good here,
and naturally will be no good there."
Garvey has been credited with creating the biggest movement of
people of African descent. This movement that took place in the
1920s is said to have had more participation from people of African
descent than the
Civil Rights
Movement. In essence the UNIA was the largest Pan-African
movement.
Charge of mail fraud
In a memorandum dated 11 October 1919,
J. Edgar Hoover,
special assistant to the Attorney
General, and head of the General Intelligence Division (or
"anti-radical division") of The Bureau of Investigation or BOI
(after 1935, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation
), wrote a memorandum to Special Agent Ridgely
regarding Marcus Garvey. In the memo, Hoover wrote
that:
Sometime around November 1919 an investigation by the BOI was begun
into the activities of Garvey and the UNIA. Toward this end, the
BOI hired
James Edward Amos,
Arthur Lowell Brent,
Thomas Leon Jefferson,
James Wormley Jones, and
Earl E. Titus as
its first five African-American agents. Although initial efforts by
the BOI were to find grounds upon which to deport Garvey as "an
undesirable alien", a charge of
mail
fraud was brought against Garvey in connection with stock sales
of the
Black Star Line after the
U.S. Post Office and the
Attorney General joined the
investigation.
The accusation centered on the fact that the
corporation had not yet purchased a ship with
the name "
Phyllis Wheatley".
Although one was pictured with that name emblazoned on its
bow on one of the company's stock brochures, it
had not actually been purchased by the BSL and still had the name
"Orion". The prosecution produced as evidence a single empty
envelope which it claimed contained the brochure. During the trial,
a man by the name of Benny Dancy testified that he didn't remember
what was in the envelope, although he regularly received brochures
from the Black Star Line. Another witness for the prosecution,
Schuyler Cargill, perjured himself after admitting to having been
told to mention certain dates in his testimony by Chief Prosecutor
Maxwell S. Mattuck. Furthermore, he admitted that he
could not remember the names of any coworkers in the office,
including the timekeeper who punched employees' time cards.
Ultimately, he acknowledged being told to lie by Postal Inspector
F.E. Shea. He said Shea told him to state that he mailed letters
containing the purportedly fraudulent brochures. The Black Star
Line did own and operate several ships over the course of its
history and was in the process of negotiating for the disputed ship
at the time the charges were brought. Assistant District Attorney,
Leo H. Healy, who was, before he became a District
Attorney, attorney for Harris McGill and Co., the sellers of the
first ship, the S. S. Yarmouth, to the Black Star Line Inc. was
also a key witness for the government during the trial.
Of the four Black Star Line officers charged in connection with the
enterprise, only Garvey was found guilty of using the mail service
to defraud. His supporters called the trial fraudulent. While there
were serious accounting irregularities within the Black Star Line
and the claims he used to sell Black Star Line stock could be
considered misleading, Garvey's supporters still contest that the
prosecution was a politically motivated
miscarriage of justice, given the
above-mentioned
false statement
testimony and Hoover's explicit regret that Garvey had committed no
crimes.
When the trial ended on 23 June 1923, Garvey had been sentenced to
five years in prison.
He initially spent three months in the
Tombs
Jail
awaiting approval of bail. While on bail, he
continued to maintain his innocence, travel, speak and organize the
UNIA.
After numerous attempts at appeal were
unsuccessful, he was taken into custody and began serving his
sentence at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
on 8 February 1925. Two days later, he
penned his well known "First Message to the Negroes of the World
From Atlanta Prison" wherein he makes his famous
proclamation:
Professor Judith Stein has stated, “his politics were on
trial.”
Garvey's sentence was eventually commuted by President
Calvin Coolidge.
Upon his release in
November 1927, Garvey was deported via New Orleans
to Jamaica
, where a large crowd met him at Orrett's Wharf in
Kingston
. A huge procession and band converged on
UNIA headquarters.
Criticism
While
W. E. B.
Du Bois expressed the
Black Star Line was “original and
promising,” he also said: “Marcus Garvey is, without doubt, the
most dangerous enemy of the Negro race in America and in the world.
He is either a lunatic or a traitor.” Du Bois feared that Garvey's
activities would undermine his efforts toward black rights.
Garvey suspected Du Bois was prejudiced against him because he was
a Caribbean native with darker skin. Du Bois once described Marcus
Garvey as "a little, fat black man; ugly, but with intelligent eyes
and a big head." Garvey called Du Bois “purely and simply a white
man's
nigger" and "a little
Dutch, a little
French, a little Negro … a
mulatto … a monstrosity.” This led to an acrimonious
relationship between Garvey and the
NAACP.
Garvey accused Du Bois of paying conspirators to sabotage the Black
Star Line to destroy his reputation.
At the National Conference of the Universal Negro Improvement
Association in 1921 a Los Angeles delegate
Noah Thompson spoke on the floor complaining
on the lack of transparency in the group's financial accounts. When
accounts were prepared Thompson highlighted several sections with
what he felt were irregularities.
Garvey
recognized the influence of the Ku Klux
Klan, and in early 1922, he went to Atlanta
, Georgia
for a conference with KKK imperial giant Edward Young Clarke.
According to Garvey, “I regard the Klan, the
Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies,
as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race
than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together. I like
honesty and fair play. You may call me a Klansman if you will, but,
potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in
competition with whites socially, economically and politically is
concerned, and there is no use lying.”
Leo
H. Healy publicly accused Garvey of
being a member of the
Ku Klux Klan in
his testimony during the mail fraud trial.
After Garvey's entente with the Ku Klux Klan, a number of African
American leaders appealed to U.S. Attorney General
Harry M. Daugherty to have Garvey
incarcerated.
Although historians tend to side with Du Bois, Theodore Vincent's
"Black Power and the Garvey Movement" contends that, "Cronon and
most other scholars dealing with Garvey have misunderstood their
subject, and have written off as unimportant a man who founded a
most significant movement for black freedom." This book is devoted
to dispelling "militant" criticism of Garvey from people like W. E.
B. Du Bois.
Later years
In 1928,
Garvey travelled to Geneva
to present
the Petition of the Negro Race. This petition outlined the
worldwide abuse of Africans to the
League of Nations. In September 1929, he
founded the
People's
Political Party (PPP), Jamaica's first modern political party,
which focused on
workers' rights,
education, and aid to the poor.
Also in 1929, Garvey was elected councilor for the Allman Town
Division of the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC).
However, he lost his seat because of having to serve a prison
sentence for
contempt of court.
But, in 1930, Garvey was re-elected, unopposed, along with two
other PPP candidates.
In April 1931, Garvey launched the
Edelweiss Amusement Company. He
set the company up to help artists earn their livelihood from their
craft. Several Jamaican entertainers —
Kidd
Harold,
Ernest Cupidon,
Bim & Bam, and
Ranny Williams — went on to become popular
after receiving initial exposure that the company gave them.
In 1935,
Garvey left Jamaica for London
. He
lived and worked in London until his death in 1940.
During these last
five years, Garvey remained active and in touch with events in
war-torn Ethiopia (then
known as Abyssinia) and in the West Indies
. In 1937, he wrote the poem
Ras Nasibu
Of Ogaden in honor of Ethiopian Army Commander (
Ras)
Nasibu
Emmanual. In 1938, he gave evidence before the
West Indian Royal Commission on
conditions there.
Also in 1938 he set up the School of African
Philosophy in Toronto
to train UNIA leaders. He continued to work
on the magazine
The Black Man.
In 1937,
a group of Garvey's American supporters called the Peace Movement of Ethiopia openly
collaborated with Mississippi
Senator Theodore
Bilbo in the promotion of a repatriation scheme introduced in
the US Congress as the Greater
Liberia Act. In the Senate, Bilbo was a supporter of
Franklin Roosevelt's
New Deal.
Bilbo was an outspoken supporter of
segregation and white supremacy and,
attracted by the ideas of Black
separatists like Garvey, Bilbo proposed an amendment to the
federal work-relief bill on 6 June 1938, proposing to deport 12
million black Americans to Liberia
at federal expense to relieve unemployment.
He took the time to write a book titled
Take Your Choice,
Separation or Mongrelization, advocating the idea. Garvey
praised him in return, saying that Bilbo had "done wonderfully well
for the Negro".
During this period, Evangeline Rondon Paterson the grandmother of
the current (55th) Governor of New York,
David Paterson served as his secretary.
Death
On 10 June 1940, Garvey died after two
strokes, putatively after reading a mistaken, and
negative,
obituary of himself in the
Chicago Defender which
stated, in part, that Garvey died "broke, alone and unpopular".
Because
of travel conditions during World War
II, he was interred at Kensal Green Cemetery
in London
.Rumours claimed that Garvey was in fact
poisoned on a boat on which he was travelling and that was where
and how he actually died.
In 1964, his remains were exhumed and taken to Jamaica. On 15
November 1964, the government of Jamaica, having proclaimed him
Jamaica's
first
national hero, re-interred him at a shrine in
National Heroes Park.
Personal life
Marcus Garvey was married twice: to the Jamaican
Pan-African activist
Amy Ashwood (married 1919, divorced
1922), who worked with him in the early years of
UNIA; then to the journalist and publisher
Amy Jacques (married 1922). The latter
was mother to his two sons, Marcus Jr. and Julius.
Influence
Garvey's memory has been kept alive. Schools, colleges, highways,
and buildings in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the United
States have been named in his honor. The UNIA
red, black, and green flag has been
adopted as the Black Liberation Flag.
Since 1980, Garvey's
bust has been housed in the Organization
of American States
' Hall of Heroes in Washington, D.C.
Malcolm X's parents, Earl and Louise Little, met
at a UNIA convention in Montreal
. Earl was the president of the UNIA division
in Omaha
, Nebraska
and sold the Negro
World newspaper while Louise was a contributor to the
Negro World.
Kwame Nkrumah named the national shipping line
of Ghana
the Black
Star Line in honor of Garvey and the UNIA. Nkrumah also
named the national
soccer team the
Black Stars as well.
The black star at the center of
Ghana's
flag is also inspired by the Black Star Line.

Flag of Ghana
During a trip to Jamaica,
Martin
Luther King and his wife
Coretta
Scott King visited the shrine of Marcus Garvey on 20 June 1965
and laid a wreath. In a speech he told the audience that Garvey
"was the first man of color to lead and develop a mass movement. He
was the first man on a mass scale and level to give millions of
Negroes a sense of dignity and destiny. And make the Negro feel he
was somebody."
King was also the posthumous recipient of the first
Marcus Garvey Prize for
Human Rights on 10 December 1968 issued by the Jamaican
Government and presented to
King's
widow.
The
United States of Africa
first saw light in a 1924 poem by Garvey and is still
discussed.
There have been pop culture references to Marcus Garvey since he
first came on the international scene. Garvey is cited repeatedly
in a diverse variety of books, songs and films. He is mentioned
particularly frequently in
blues,
reggae,
jazz and
hip hop music.
In
2002, scholar
Molefi Kete Asante listed Marcus Garvey
on his list of
100
Greatest African Americans.
Rastafari and Garvey
Rastafarians consider Garvey a
religious prophet,
and sometimes even the
reincarnation
of
Saint John the Baptist.
This is partly because of his frequent statements uttered in
speeches throughout the 1920s, usually along the lines of "Look to
Africa, when a black king shall be crowned for the day of
deliverance is at hand!"
His beliefs deeply influenced the Rastafari, who took his
statements as a prophecy of the crowning of
Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia.
Early Rastas were associated with his
Back-to-Africa movement in Jamaica.
This early Rastafari movement was also influenced by a separate,
proto-Rasta movement known as the
Afro-Athlican Church that was outlined
in a religious text known as the
Holy Piby
— where Garvey was proclaimed to be a prophet as well. Thus, the
Rastafari movement can be seen as an offshoot of
Garveyite philosophy. As his beliefs have greatly
influenced Rastafari, he is often mentioned in
reggae music.
Garvey himself never identified with the Rastafari movement, and
was, in fact, raised as a
Methodist who
went on to become a
Catholic.
Memorials to Garvey
There are a number of memorials worldwide which honor Marcus
Garvey. Most are in Jamaica and the United States.
Jamaica
- A marker in front of the house of his birth at 32 Market
Street, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica.
- A statue on the grounds of St. Ann's Bay Parish Library.
- A secondary school in his name in St. Ann' Bay.
- A major highway in his name in Kingston.
- A bust in Apex Park in Kingston.
- Likeness on the Jamaican 50 cent coin, 20 dollar coin and 25
cent coin.
- A building in his name housing the Jamaican Ministry of Foreign
Affairs located in New Kingston.
- A Marcus Garvey statue at National Heroes Park in Kingston,
JA.
- The album "Marcus Garvey"
and "Garvey's Ghost" (a dub version of the "Marcus Garvey" album) by
reggae legend Burning Spear.
- A deejay version (Jamaican rap) by reggae legend Big Youth, based on an instrumental mix of the
original Burning Spear recording "Marcus Garvey".
- A cover version of Burning Spear's "Marcus Garvey" recorded by
reggae singer Spectacular (as Burning Spectacular) was released in
2002 on a 12" vinyl record on the Jamaican label Human Race
Records. Produced by Bruno Blum, it
features an original recording of a live Marcus Garvey speech in
which several key slogans of the Rastafari movement founded in the
1930s can be heard. The flip side includes another recording by Big
Youth of the "Marcus Garvey" composition mentioned right
above.
- In the Bob Marley song "so much things to say" Marley sings
"I'll never forget, no way. They crucify Jesus Christ, I'll never
forget, no way. They sold Marcus Garvey for rights".
- Reggae band The Gladiators
recorded the song "Marcus Garvey Time", proclaiming him as a
prophet with lyrics like, "Every thing he has said has come to
pass".
Trinidad
- A statue on Harris Promenade, San Fernando
United States of America
- Park in his name
and a New York Public Library
branch dedicated to him in New York City
's Harlem
.
- A
major street in his name in the historically Black Brooklyn
neighbourhood of Bedford Stuyvesant
in New York City.
- Marcus Garvey elementary school in the
historically Black Brooklyn
neighbourhood of Bedford Stuyvesant
in New York
City
call P.S.44.
- The
Universal Hip Hop Parade
held annually in Brooklyn
on the Saturday before his birthday to carry on his
use of popular culture as a tool of
empowerment and to encourage the growth of Black institutions.
- A
park in his name in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco
, California
.
- A
Marcus Garvey Cultural Center, University
of Northern Colorado
, Greeley, Colorado
.
- A
secondary school in Trenton, New Jersey
.
- A
Community Center and Senior Housing Community in the Roxbury
neighborhood of Boston
, Massachusetts
.
- Marcus Garvey school. A K through 8 grade private school in
Los Angeles,
California
.
- Marcus Garvey school. A Pre-K through 8 grade public magnet in
math and science in Chicago, Illinois
.
- Marcus Books stores are named after him in San Francisco and
Oakland.
- Record producer, CEO, clothing designer, actor, and rapper
Sean John Combs's clothing line
Sean John released a pair of denim jeans
whose style is named 'Garvey' after Marcus Garvey.
- Boston indie band Piebald wrote a
song titled "If Marcus Garvey Dies, Then Marcus Garvey Lives" for
their 1999 release "If It Weren't For Venetian Blinds, It Would Be
Curtains for us All"
- Ska band Hepcat recorded the song "Marcus
Garvey" on their album Scientific.
Sinead Oconner reggae album released in 2008 has a track named
"Marcus Garvey"
Canada
- Marcus Garvey Centre for Unity in Edmonton, Alberta
- Marcus Garvey day festival held yearly on 17 August in Toronto
(North York), Ontario
Africa
United Kingdom
- A
small park in his name in Hammersmith, London
,
England.
- Marcus Garvey Centre
in Lenton
, Nottingham
, England.
- A
Marcus Garvey Library inside the Tottenham Green
Leisure Centre building in North London,
England.
- Marcus Garvey Road in Brixton
, London
.
- Blue plaque at
53, Talgarth Road, Hammersmith
, London, England:
GARVEY, Marcus (1887-1940)
Pan-Africanist Leader,lived and died here, 53 Talgarth Road,
W14.[Hammersmith and Fulham 2005]
See also
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November 1983, Page 5
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- Poem - Ras Nasibu of the Ogaden
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Whirlwind, PBS
documentary (transcript). Last accessed on December 3, 2007.
- See for example the viral video, Marcus Garvey Lives!,
combining a 1921 recording of Garvey's speech on the aims of the
U.N.I.A. with the 1975 dub soundtrack of fellow Jamaican (also from
St. Ann) and reggae superstar, Winston "Burning Spear' Rodney:
http://www.archive.org/details/MarcusGarveyLivessubtitledVersion
- June 20, 1965: Martin Luther King Jr. visits
Jamaica
- The Black 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential
African-Americans, Past and Present By Columbus Salley, Page
82, 1999, Citadel Press.
- Asante, Molefi Kete (2002). 100 Greatest African Americans: A
Biographical Encyclopedia. Amherst, New York. Prometheus Books.
ISBN 1-57392-963-8.
- M.G. Smith, Roy Augier and Rex Nettleford, "The Rastafari
Movement in Kingston, Jamaica," Kingston 1960, p.5
- 32 Market Street,25 January 2008
-
http://www.edmontonplus.ca/arts_entertainment/marcus_garvey_centre_for_unity/1084248
- http://www.marcusgarvey.net/index.html
Further reading
Works by Marcus Garvey
- The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey. Edited
by Amy Jacques Garvey. 412 pages.
Majority Press; Centennial edition, 1 November 1986. ISBN
0-912469-24-2. Avery edition. ISBN 0-405-01873-8.
- Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy by Marcus Garvey.
Edited by Tony Martin. Foreword by Hon. Charles L. James,
president- general, Universal Negro
Improvement Association. 212 pages. Majority Press, 1 March
1986. ISBN 0-912469-19-6.
- The Poetical Works of Marcus Garvey. Compiled and
edited by Tony Martin. 123 pages. Majority Press, 1 June 1983. ISBN
0-912469-02-1.
- Hill, Robert A., editor. The Marcus Garvey and Universal
Negro Improvement Association Papers. Vols. I-VII, IX.
University of California Press, ca. 1983- (ongoing). 1146 pages.
University of California Press, 1 May 1991. ISBN
0-520-07208-1.
- Hill, Robert A., editor. The Marcus Garvey and Universal
Negro Improvement Association Papers: Africa for the Africans
1921-1922. 740 pages. University of California Press, 1
February 1996. ISBN 0-520-20211-2.
Books
- Burkett, Randall K. Garveyism as a Religious Movement: The
Institutionalization of a Black Civil Religion. Metuchen,
N.J.: Scarecrow Press and American Theological Library Association,
1978.
- Campbell, Horace. Rasta and Resistance: From Marcus Garvey
to Walter Rodney. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press,
1987.
- Clarke, John Henrik, editor. Marcus Garvey and the Vision
of Africa. With assistance from Amy Jacques Garvey. New York:
Vintage Books, 1974.
- Cronon, Edmund David. Black Moses: The Story of Marcus
Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 1955, reprinted 1969 and 2007.
- Garvey, Amy Jacques, Garvey and Garveyism. London: Collier-MacMillan, 1963,
1968.
- Grant, Colin. Negro with a Hat,
The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey and his Dream of Mother
Africa., London: Jonathan Cape, 2008.
- Hill, Robert A., editor. Marcus Garvey, Life and Lessons: A
Centennial Companion to the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro
Improvement Association Papers. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1987.
- Hill, Robert A. The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro
Improvement Association Papers. Vols. I–VII, IX. University of
California Press, ca. 1983– (ongoing).
- James, Winston. Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia:
Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century America.
London: Verso, 1998.
- Kornweibel Jr., Theodore. Seeing Red: Federal Campaigns
Against Black Militancy 1919-1925. Bloomington and
Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998.
- Lemelle, Sidney, and Robin D. G. Kelley. Imagining Home:
Class, Culture, and Nationalism in the African Diaspora.
London: Verso, 1994.
- Lewis, Rupert. Marcus Garvey: Anti-Colonial Champion.
Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1988.
- Lewis, Rupert, and Bryan, Patrick, eds. Garvey: His Work
and Impact. Mona, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic
Research, 1988.
- Lewis, Rupert, and Maureen Warner-Lewis. Garvey: Africa,
Europe, The Americas. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1986,
1994.
- Manoedi, M. Korete. Garvey and Africa. New York: New
York Age Press, 1922.
- Martin, Tony. Race First: The Ideological and
Organizational Struggle of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro
Improvement Association. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press,
1976.
- Martin, Tony. Literary Garveyism: Garvey, Black Arts, and
the Harlem Renaissance. Dover, Mass.: Majority Press,
1983.
- Martin, Tony. African Fundamentalism: A Literary and
Cultural Anthology of Garvey's Harlem Renaissance. Dover,
Mass.: Majority Press, 1983, 1991.
- Martin, Tony. Marcus Garvey: Hero. Dover, Mass.:
Majority Press, 1983.
- Martin, Tony. The Pan-African Connection: From Slavery to
Garvey and Beyond. Dover, Mass.: Majority Press, 1983.
- Martin, Tony. The Poetical Works of Marcus Garvey.
Dover, Mass.: Majority Press, 1983.
- Smith-Irvin, Jeannette. Marcus Garvey's Footsoldiers of the
Universal Negro Improvement Association. Trenton, N.J.: Africa
World Press, 1989.
- Solomon, Mark. The Cry Was Unity: Communists and
African-Americans, 1917–1936. Jackson: University Press of
Mississippi, 1998.
- Stein, Judith. The World of Marcus Garvey: Race and Class
in Modern Society. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press, 1986.
- Tolbert, Emory J. The UNIA and Black Los Angeles. Los
Angeles: Center of Afro-American Studies, University of California,
1980.
- Vincent, Theodore. Black Power and the Garvey
Movement. Berkeley, Calif.: Ramparts Press, 1971.
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