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<p>In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to West Africa. In 1937, Celia Jane Allen traveled to Jim Crow Mississippi to organize rural black workers around black nationalist causes. In the late 1940s, from her home in Kingston, Jamaica, Amy Jacques Garvey launched an extensive letter-writing campaign to defend the Greater Liberia Bill, which would relocate 13 million black Americans to West

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Author

Keisha N. Blain

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812249880

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, History, Social Sciences

Rating

4.8 / 5 (69 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14