The age of Garvey : how a Jamaican activist created a mass movement and changed global Black politics / Adam Ewing.

"Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. The Age of Garvey presents an expa...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:America in the world.
Main Author: Ewing, Adam (Historian)
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:America in the world.
Subjects:
Garvey, Marcus, > 1887-1940 > Influence.
Universal Negro Improvement Association > History.
African diaspora.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General.
HISTORY / Africa / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
Physical Description:xi, 304 pages : illustrations, maps.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • pt. 1. The rise and fall of Marcus Garvey. The education of Marcus Mosiah Garvey
  • The center cannot hold
  • Africa for the Africans!
  • "The silent work that must be done"
  • pt. 2. The age of Garvey. The tide of preparation
  • Broadcast on the winds
  • The visible horizon
  • Muigwithania (The Reconciler).