The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. I: 1826-August 1919 Volume 1

by Marcus Garvey

Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887- 1940) led an extraordinary mass movement of black social protest. His Universal Negro Improvement Association and his "back to African" program of racial nationalism introduced many ideas that emerged again during the Black Power years of the 1960s: pride in black roots, pride in black physical features and African culture, and rejection of assimilation into white America. Yet the charismatic black Jamaican who roared his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520044568
• ISBN13: 9780520044562
• Release Date: November 1983
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 710 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.7" x 9.8"