1910's Lifestyles and Social Trends | "The Negro Should Be a Party to the Commercial Conquest of the World"

Editorial

By: Marcus Garvey

Date: 1919

Source: Hill, Robert A., ed. "The Negro Should be a Party to the Commercial Conquest of the World: Wake Up You Lazy Men of the Race—This is the Time of Preparation for All." In The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983, 351–353.

About the Author: Marcus Garvey (1887–1940), a Jamaican-born political and social leader, was America's first true black nationalist. In 1914 Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in Jamaica. Two years later he brought the UNIA to the United States. He preached black pride, black power, and black economic self-sufficiency, and sought to link the struggle of American blacks with the worldwide uprising of colored people against their white oppressors.

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