Black Moses: the story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association
In the early twentieth century, Marcus Garvey sowed the seeds of a new black pride and determination. Attacked by the black intelligentsia and ridiculed by the white press, this Jamaican immigrant astonished all with his black nationalist rhetoric. In just four years, he built the Universal Negro Im...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Madison,
University of Wisconsin Press
[1969]
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| Summary: | In the early twentieth century, Marcus Garvey sowed the seeds of a new black pride and determination. Attacked by the black intelligentsia and ridiculed by the white press, this Jamaican immigrant astonished all with his black nationalist rhetoric. In just four years, he built the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), the largest and most powerful all-black organization the nation had ever seen. With hundreds of branches, throughout the United States, the UNIA represented Garvey's greatest accomplishment and, ironically, the source of his public disgrace. Black Moses brings this controversial figure to life and recovers the significance of his life and work.--From publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | xxiii, 278 pages illustrations, facsimiles, portraits 23 cm Also issued online. |
| Bibliography: | "References and notes": pages 227-265. |
| ISBN: | 0299012107 9780299012106 029901214X 9780299012144 |