The Black Moses: The Story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association
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...
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“I stand before you this afternoon as a proud man, honored to be a black man, who would be nothing else in God’s creation but a black man.” Marcus Garvey, 1928“A vivid, detailed, and sound portrait of a man and his dreams.”—Political Science Quarterly“Good reading for all serious history students.”—Jet
