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The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers The Caribbean Diaspora, 1920–1921 Volume XII marcus garvey robert a . hill , editor in chief
Volume XII of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers covers
Robert A. Hill is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is Editor in Chief and Project Director of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project at the James S. Coleman African Studies Center.
a period of twelve months, from the opening of the the
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The Caribbean Diaspora, 1920–1921 Volume XII
robert a. hill Editor in Chief
UNIA’s historic first international convention in New
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York, in August 1920, to Marcus Garvey’s return to
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the United States in July 1921 after an extended tour of Cuba, Jamaica, Panama, Costa Rica, and Belize. In many ways the 1920 convention marked the high point of the Garvey movement in the United States,
“The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers will take its place among the most important records of the Afro-American experience.”—ERIC FONER , New York Times Book Review
while Garvey’s tour of the Caribbean, in the winter and spring of 1921, registered the greatest outpouring of popular support for the UNIA in its history. The period covered in the present volume was the moment of the movement’s political apotheosis, but also the moment when the finances of Garvey’s Black Star Line went into
“Robert A. Hill and his staff . . . have gathered over 30,000 documents from libraries and other sources in many countries. . . . The Garvey papers will reshape our understanding of the history of black nationalism and perhaps increase our understanding of contemporary black politics.”
free fall.
—CLAYBORNE CARSON , The Nation
Volume XII highlights the centrality of Caribbean people not only to the conven-
“Now is our chance, through these important volumes,
tion, but also to the movement. The reports to the convention discussed the
to finally begin to come to terms with the significance
range of social and economic conditions obtaining in the Caribbean, particularly
of Garvey’s complex, fascinating career and the meaning
their impact on racial conditions. The quality of the discussions and debates
of the movement he built.”—LAWRENCE W. LEVINE ,
were impressive. Contained in these reports are some of the earliest and most
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clearly enunciated statements in defense of social and political freedom in the Caribbean. These documents form an underappreciated and still underutilized record of the political awakening of Caribbean people of African descent.
also available
About The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project A monumental archival undertaking, The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project has collected thousands of historical documents related to Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), which spread Garvey’s influential message of racial pride, black nationalism, and PanAfricanism around the world. The Papers include letters, pamphlets, intelligence reports, newspaper articles, speeches, legal records, and diplomatic dispatches carefully assem-
For more information about The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement
The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Volume XI: The Caribbean Diaspora, 1910–1920
Association Papers, visit web.international.ucla.edu/africa/mgpp
cloth, $120.00/£78.00
bled, editorially arranged, and annotated by Robert A. Hill and his research team.
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