- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Marcus Garvey
- Date of Original:
- 1922
- Subject:
- Universal Negro Improvement Association
Congresses and conventions--New York (State)--New York
Civil rights workers--New York (State)--New York
Publishers and publishing--New York (State)--New York
Philanthropists--New York (State)--New York
Desks--New York (State)--New York
Gavels--New York (State)--New York
Black nationalism--United States
Authors, Jamaican--New York (State)--New York - People:
- Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940
- Location:
- United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Marcus Garvey, the Jamaican-born founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, presides over the organization's 1922 convention at Liberty Hall in New York City.
Photograph of Marcus Garvey, the Jamaican-born founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, presiding over the organization's 1922 convention at Liberty Hall in New York City. Seated at a desk, he wears a suit and patterned vest. He holds a gavel in his left hand.
The Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) had at least thirty-four divisions in Georgia during the early to mid-1920s. Black Georgians read its newspaper, the Negro World, and contributed generously to many UNIA causes. The UNIA's Jamaican founder, Marcus Garvey, had a significant following in the South, particularly in rural areas among tenant farmers and sharecroppers, for his programs of economic independence, racial separatism, and African redemption. His ideas also found strong support in urban areas with large black populations, in the Caribbean, and in Africa. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/universal-negro-improvement-association/m-7337/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers Project, UCLA
Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division - Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/universal-negro-improvement-association
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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