x, 102, ix, 412 pages, 25 unnumbered leaves of plates illustrations, portraits 23 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2014
1923
Notes:
Facsimile edition. Originally published: Universal Publishing House, New York, 1923-1926
AFA copy 39088019024744 gift from Janet Stanley.
Summary:
This collection of Garvey's writing remains the most famous collection of Garvey's speeches and essays. Marcus Garvey and the "Universal Negro Improvement Association" form a critical link in black America's centuries-long struggle for freedom, justice, and equality. As the leader of the largest organized mass movement in black history and progenitor of the modern "black is beautiful" ideal, Garvey is now best remembered as a champion of the back-to-Africa movement. In his own time he was hailed as a redeemer, a "Black Moses." Though he failed to realize all his objectives, his movement still represents an attempt at liberation from the psychological bondage of racial inferiority
