text ¹ Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers August 1919 August 1920 v 2 The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Ò Robert A. Hill
Ting in Carnegie Hall in August and culminated in its spectacular First International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World in Hill has compiled a wealth of archival documents and original manuscripts with descriptive source notes and explanatory footnotes He provides a fascinating account of the spread of Garvey's movement which was seen and feared by officials in America Europe and colonial governments in Africa and the Caribbean as the major ideological force promoting radical consciousness among blacks Hill continues the comprehensive outline begun in Volume I of Garvey's Black Star Line the all black merchant marine and documents the beginnings of Garvey's proposals for massive loans to the Liberian government These controversial financial schemes led to Garvey's reputation as a swindler and Volume II details the first charges of fraud The federal investigation of Garvey broadened and deepened during with J Edgar Hoover then an assistant to the attorney general continuin
Robert A. Hill Ò Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers August 1919 August 1920 v 2 The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers eBook
Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers August 1919 August 1920 v 2 The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association PapersG to search tor grounds Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement PDFEPUB ² to deport Garvey Included here are numerous repons from government agents and informers which provide a valuable ponrait of day to day UNIA operations Volume II ends with the UNIA's convention presented by Garvey as a turning point in the history of black white relations The legislation and the elective offices produced by that convention were intended to form a virtual government in exile for Africa fulfilling Garvey's ambition to practice statecraft and create the symbols of black nationhood and sovereignty This volume is the second of six that focus on America; the seventh and eighth focus on Africa and the last two on the Caribbean Hill has brought together far than a portrait of a single intriguing historical figure Garvey's movement was a mass social phenomenon an Afro American protest movement with strong links to African and Caribbean nationalism in the first decades of the twentieth century