Black Moses : the story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association

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Label

Black Moses : the story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association

Title remainder

the story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association

Statement of responsibility

E. David Cronon ; foreword by John Hope Franklin

Creator

• Cronon, Edmund David

Subject

• African Americans -- Race identity
• Black nationalism -- United States
• Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940
• Universal Negro Improvement Association

Language

eng

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

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

301.4519

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E185.97.G3

LC item number

C7 1969b

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography