The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association papers. Volume VII, November 1927-August 1940. / Marcus Garvey and Robert Abraham Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940, author.

Hill, Robert Abraham, author.

Series:

The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers

The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers ; Volume 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940--Archives.

Garvey, Marcus.

Universal Negro Improvement Association--Archives.

Universal Negro Improvement Association.

Black power--United States--History--Sources.

Black power.

African Americans--Race identity--History--Sources.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights--History--Sources.

Manuscripts, American.

African Americans--Archives.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1176 p.) : 1 frontisp.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 1986.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The publication of Volume VII marks the completion of the American series of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers. This final book in the seven-volume set charts the magnetic, controversial Pan-African leader's career from his deportation from the United States in November 1927 to his death in England in 1940. The volume begins with Garvey's triumphant welcome in Jamaica, his tour abroad, and his entry into Jamaican party politics. It traces his reshaping of the organizational structure of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in the late 1920s, and his management of UNIA affairs from Kingston and London in the 1930s. Though typically seen as a time of decline, this final period of Garvey's life appears, in editorials drawn from his publications, as a fruitful one in which some of his strongest political writings were produced. Surveillance reports filed by Jamaican police and British colonial officials provide a rich account of Garvey's speeches and activities. Although he was banned from the United States and restricted from traveling or speaking in many areas under colonial supervision, Garvey nevertheless traveled widely after his deportation, visiting and influencing affairs in Geneva, Paris, and London, and making organizational tours of Canada and the Caribbean. He chaired UNIA conferences in Toronto and inaugurated the School of African Philosophy, a series of lectures designed to train UNIA leaders. In the mid-1930s he moved the headquarters of the UNIA to London. In the final months of his life, correspondence between Garvey in England and his young sons in Jamaica shows the personal side of the public leader. The tragedy of Garvey's personal demise is framed by the cataclysmic events of Europe entering a world war and by the decline of the movement he had worked so diligently to build.

The long financial hardships of the previous decade and the loss of Garvey's presence had winnowed the membership of the UNIA. Garvey suffered a disabling stroke in January 1940. He died in London the following June, as Italy invaded France and Germany prepared to occupy Paris. Volume VII ends with the reconstitution of the UNIA in the months immediately after Garvey's death and the establishment of a new headquarters with new leadership in Cleveland.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES

TEXTUAL DEVICES

SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS

CHRONOLOGY

1927

1928

1929

1930

1931

1932

1933

1934

1935

1936

1937

1938

1939

1940

APPENDIX I. Delegates to the Sixth International UNIA Convention, Kingston, August 1929

APPENDIX II. Delegates to the Seventh International UNIA Convention, Kingston, August 1934

APPENDIX III. Delegates to the First Regional UNIA Conference, Toronto, August 1936

APPENDIX IV. Delegates to the Second Regional UNIA Conference, Toronto, August 1937

APPENDIX V. Delegates to the Eighth International UNIA Convention, Toronto, August 1938

APPENDIX VI. UNIA Convention Delegates by Gender

APPENDIX VII. Chronological List of the Editorial Staffs of the Negro World

APPENDIX VIII. Alphabetical List of Negro World Staff Members

APPENDIX IX. Map of UNIA in Harlem

APPENDIX X. Locations of UNIA Divisions and Chapters

APPENDIX XI. Concentration of UNIA Divisions by Regions

APPENDIX XII. Speech by Daisy Whyte, Private Secretary to Marcus Garvey

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520342293

0520342291

OCLC:

1163878432