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"Understand the groundswell movement for Marcus Garvey's posthumous pardon through this compelling and timely work. Edited by Garvey's son Julius, this collection of writings by thought leaders and activists preserves and honors the elder Garvey's legacy for a new generation of social activists"--
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For more than half a century before World War II, black South Africans and "American Negroes"--A group that included African Americans and black West Indians-established close institutional and personal relationships that laid the necessary groundwork for the successful South African and American antiapartheid movements. Though African Americans suffered under Jim Crow racial discrimination, oppressed Africans saw African Americans as free people...
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Amy Jacques Garvey worked closely with her husband, Marcus Garvey, throughout his crusade. Here she gives an insider detailed account of Garvey, Garveyism, and this nascent period of Black Nationalism. Like all great dreamers and planners, Marcus Garvey dreamed and planned ahead of his time and his peoples' ability to understand the significance of his life's work. A set of circumstances, mostly created by the world colonial powers, crushed this dreamer,...
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Marcus Mosiah Garvey was once the most famous black man on earth. A brilliant orator who electrified his audiences, he inspired thousands to join his "Back to Africa" movement, aiming to create an independent homeland through Pan-African emigration--yet he was barred from the continent by colonial powers. This self-educated, poetry-writing aesthete was a shrewd promoter whose use of pageantry fired the imagination of his followers. At the pinnacle...
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This volume--the first edited collection devoted to Garveyism studies in three decades--showcases original essays by scholars working in Africa, the West Indies, the Hispanic Caribbean, North America, and Australia. Garveyism was carried across the globe following the First World War, generating the largest mass movement in the history of the African diaspora.
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A controversial figure in the history of race relations around the world, Marcus Garvey amazed his enemies as much as he dazzled his admirers. This anthology contains some of the African-American rights advocate's most noted writings and speeches, including "Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World" and "Africa for the Africans."
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"Steven Hahn's provocative new book challenges deep-rooted views in the writing of American and African-American history. Moving from slave emancipations of the eighteenth century through slave activity during the Civil War and on to the black power movements of the twentieth century, he asks us to rethink African-American history and politics in bolder, more dynamic terms."--Jacket
10) Marcus Garvey
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A biography of the black leader who started a "Back-to-Africa" movement in the United States, believing blacks would never receive justice in countries with a white majority. One of the most controversial figures to emerge from post-World War I America, Marcus Garvey became a champion of black rights as the charismatic leader of the Back To Africa movement, which sought to establish a central homeland for blacks.
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A biography of the controversial Negro leader who advocated black nationalism in the early twentieth century.
19) Marcus Garvey
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Profiles Marcus Garvey, a self-educated black man who worked to end world-wide discrimination against Africans, to help black Africans regain control of their countries, and to promote black pride, unity, and power.