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...Figure 6. James VanDerZee, “UNIA African Legion,” 1924. © Donna Mussenden VanDerZee ...

... in the former location of the Universal Negro Improvement Association’s (UNIA) Liberty Hall. It was in that Liberty Hall that the Mount Sinai Church of Banes, led by a woman descendant of immigrants from the British Caribbean, held its fi rst meetings in the 1940s. In Jobabo...

.... Inaugurated more than thirty years ago (memorably, volume 1 was published in 1983), the edition encompasses two earlier series: the seven volumes of the American series, tracing the evolution of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in North America, and the three volumes of the African series...

... . 83 “President of Local Society on Attitude of Race,” Daily Chronicle , 26 March 1915. 82 Cited in Sherwood, Origins of Pan-Africanism , 168; contained in official UNIA letterhead, Marcus Garvey to Nicholas Murray Butler, President, Columbia University, New York, 27 November 1917 ( MGP 1...

... (UNIA) and Garvey’s consciousness-raising rhetoric of African pride and black self-sufficiency (123). The UNIA was indeed a huge movement at its apex, with members across the globe, but its first meeting in the summer of 1914 had been hosted by Garvey and Amy Ashwood Garvey (then Amy Ashwood...

... for the Jamaican Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL), in its early years the ICU enjoyed blurring the lines between itself and the UNIA-ACL. In South Africa, the ICU's first periodical, the Black Man , was often mistaken for the UNIA-ACL's periodical...

... founded the People s Political Party. St. William Grant, an in uential labor leader and a longtime supporter of Garvey s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), was particularly instrumental in piquing Huie s interest in Garvey s philosophies through his public orations in the park. Grant, who...

... unity. Following this trip to Jamaica, Huiswoud accused Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) of “going through the course of establishing an empire—racial imperialism.” 1 A second competition follows this first conflict, where the Huiswouds’ continued commitment to the Communist...

... parallels with the rise of the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) around Marcus Garvey in the 1920s. Both groups adhered to bourgeois ideals...

... by the Black Star Line, the maritime arm of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). When the vessel had cruised three miles beyond US territorial waters, beyond the reach of the government’s revenue cutters, bootleggers’ ships lay at the ready to facilitate smuggling the liquor back into the United...

...—as that they were so well received by the UNIA audiences at the local level. 51. “The end of the trial of this man who has been declared by a number of American citizens to be an unblushing impostor must be of great interest in this island, from the fact that Garvey is a Jamaican...

... shares a familiar name with Beloved’s exorcist, becomes “a vessel, a horse” (46) for the spirits of two clandestine female organizers for Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). The spirits tell Ella stories that she was unable to derive from her interviews with one of them...

... the different small islands.” 21 A husband and wife from St. James even encountered Marcus Garvey in Cuba. “We used to keep service at the UNIA [Universal Negro Improvement Association],” they told the interviewer, “and [Garvey] tell us a lot of things. . . . [He] let we know that we are all Africans...

... and the riots that ensued. He is now a renowned professor of history at UCLA, authority on Marcus Garvey and the UNIA, and the literary executor of the C. L. R. James estate; Tim Hector returned to Antigua where he became a leading fi gure in the Antiguan labor movement. Today he is a senator...

... Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) papers. From its first volume in 1983 to its most recent in 2016, volume 13, on the Caribbean diaspora from 1921 to 1922, this project of overwhelming scope represents the finest attempt to chronicle the most influential mass movement...

... part. . . . Nevertheless, the Negro bears a badge of slavery on him which has its origin way back in the time of his slavery. 71 In 1929, Huiswoud volunteered to go to Jamaica to attend the Sixth Convention of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) as a representative of the ANLC...

... in Trinidad, and even the local Port of Spain branch of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) had to distance itself from his views. Its president, E. M. Mitchell, thought Garvey had made an “unjustified, a serious blunder . . . due to misinformation and ignorance of local...

... Improvement Association, to an altogether different task—defending the British Empire. At a September 1914 UNIA meeting in Kingston, members expressed their “loyalty and devotion” to the British Empire, bearing homage to “the great protecting and civilizing influence of the English nation and people.” 1...