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Volume 4 The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. IV: September 1921-September 1922 by Robert A. Hill (editor); Emory J. Tolbert (editor); Deborah Forczek (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Volume 4 The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. IV: September 1921-September 1922 about?

The fourth volume of the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers marks the period of deepening crisis in the UNIA's political and economic fortunes. After September of 1921, membership declined and morale in the UNIA began to weaken. Underlying it all, however, was the final failure of the Black Star Line that resulted when negotiations with the United States Chipping Board for the purchase of the long proposed African ship collapsed in March 1922. The movement also suffered a major setback when the first Liberian colonization plan aborted in the summer of 1921. On the political front, Garvey's African program had to compete with W.E.B. Du Bois's Second Pan-African Congress. The were also major shifts in Garvey's political strategy during this period, his speeches reflecting a desire to placate the U.S. government, while simultaneously assailing his lef-wing critics for promoting'social equality.'This disavowal of radicalism earned him further enemies on the left. One of his chief black critics, Cyril V. Briggs, the leader of the African Blood Brotherhood, unwittingly supplied federal investigators with evidence that led to Garvey's indictment on charges of

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Author

Robert A. Hill (editor); Emory J. Tolbert (editor); Deborah Forczek (editor)

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520054462

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Humanities