Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927
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Main Author: Rolinson, Mary G. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press 2007
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
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The black separatist movement led by Marcus Garvey has long been viewed as a phenomenon of African American organization in the urban North. But as Mary Rolinson demonstrates, the largest number of Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) divisions and Garvey's most devoted and loyal followers were found in the southern Black Belt. Rolinson remaps the movement to include this vital but overlooked region, and offers a view of what southern Garveyites were like. Even after the UNIA had all but disappeared in the South in the 1930s, she says, the movement's tenets of race organization, unit
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (301 p.)
ISBN:0807872784
9780807872789

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