Marcus Garvey was the leader and namesake of the Garveyism movement and UNIA until his death in 1940. He additionally established the Black Star Steamship line, the Negro Factory Corp, and his newspaper the Negro World. Garvey’s ideas of giving the black community a voice and identity, by joining together as one black nation against their white oppressors, resonated not only with many in the U.S. but was heard by hundreds of other black communities across the world. Garvey’s black nationalism movement advocated for emigration of African Americans to Africa, as well as the creation of a transatlantic black nation. Garvey recognized the importance of Midwestern sites, like Cleveland, for his organization. He considered many of the newly arrived southern black migrants who fled to the cities of the Midwest, in search of freedom from Jim Crow, some of his most loyal followers. | Date: 1924 | Source: Library of Congress Download Original File
