Marcus Garvey as Commander in Chief of the Universal African Legion
Marcus Garvey & Garvey Movement
Today, when we think of Black political movements, we think of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. However, serious students of African American history and politics know that the largest political movement among African Americans was not the movement of the 1960s, but the Garvey Movement of the 1920s. This movement was led by Marcus Mosiah Garvey who emigrated to the United States from his birthplace of Jamaica and organized a worldwide Black nationalist and Pan Africanist movement of black people under the slogan, “Africa for the Africans – Those at Home and Those Abroad”.
The movement, led by Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association is said to have in excess of four million members, making it, by far, the largest organization of Black people the modern world has ever seen. The UNIA had members throughout the Caribbean, Africa, and Central America. However, the overwhelming majority of its members were African Americans in the US. The movement popularized the Red, Black, and green as the flag of Black nationalism.
At the heart of Garvey’s philosophy was an economic Black nationalism that saw the establishment of Black businesses including its own shipping line, The Black Star Line.
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Key leaders and organizations which would later emerge to play a leading role in the Black mass movement of the 1960s were heavily influenced by Garvey and the Garvey Movement. Among those influenced by Garveyism were Malcolm X, whose father was a Garveyite, and the Nation of Islam.
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The issue of roots has to do with the conception of the primary rootedness of the discipline in the African American initiative and experience and the Black Freedom Movement and its emancipatory thrust. The issue of range involves …. In these years the “New Negro” was born, as seen in the shift of black leadership from Booker T. Washington to that of W.E.B. Du Bois, from Tuskegee to New York, and for some, even to the African nationalism of Marcus Garvey….In Voices from the …
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Marcus Garvey (1887 – 1940) an entrepreneur, journalist and proponent of Black nationalism, encourages Black Americans to return to their African homeland and establishes the Black Star Line, a fleet of Black owned steamships that serviced the Caribbean Islands, America, and Africa. … The Harlem Renaissance was originally called the “New Negro Movement”. ….. He was released from prison in 1990 and in 1994 won the presidency in South Africa’s first democratic election.
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Ghana was the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence from the mother country, Britain, the mightiest colonizing empire on the five continents. … and Marcus Garvey’s philosophy of “Africa for Africans” together with his movement for the return to the ancestral continent, all contributed to intensifying Nkrumah’s yearning for uplifting to a dignified life, his brothers in blood ….. The Cuban leadership agreed to offer this request support to its African brothers.
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We will examine these three schools which we have termed the Black Intellectual Resistance Movement (BIRM) by focusing on 1) the historical philosophy of Carter G. Woodson, father of Negro History School (who became ….. Even though not a Marxist, Marcus Garvey had a trade union background, and most members of the socialist African Blood Brotherhood (ABB) were of Jamaican or Caribbean heritage.83 The idea of one’s social existence determining one’s …
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For example, Marcus Garvey, the great Jamaican leader of the first mass movement among Africans in the United States, simply gave Washington’s self-help orientation a nationalist slant and back-to-Africa twist; his personal admiration of Washington is indisputable.” (89) … … here is a brief reflection on a different moment of african-american history, and a different but related dichotomy (violence and non-violence), from someone pretty far outside the field:
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He turned out to be one of the most influential leaders of the country preaching a doctrine he called “race first” that the late Tony Martin, documented in his seminal work, Race First. Garvey promoted three … He was unflinching in his belief that Africans gave civilization to the world. … It’s no exaggeration to say that Garvey’s Pan-African philosophy influenced the ideology of the Nation of Islam and the Rastafari movements. … So that our precious blood may not be shed
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Establishing Standards for Contextualized Teaching and Learning about Africa and People of African Descent worldwide is essential for relevant and progressive education as the foundation for a true African Renaissance. …. For Diaspora Africans, of course, the 1920s Harlem Renaissance and the Négritude movement it helped to inspire exemplify our tradition of reconnecting with our great heritage for African unity. … We are indeed the “first civilizers” of humanity.
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There’s where Michigan State University is located; I related all of this to an audience of students when I spoke there in January, 1963 (and had the first reunion in a long while with my younger brother, Robert, who was there doing postgraduate studies in psychology). I told them how East … I guess this also fit his association with the back-to-Africa movement, with Marcus Garvey’s “Black Train Homeward. … “No one knows when the hour of Africa’s redemption cometh.
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