Links to Online Resources
The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project
(UCLA) http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/mgpp/
The most scholarly Web site on Garvey--and the most accessible and reliable. Includes 37
documents from the twelve-volume UCLA series of the Garvey/UNIA papers, a Garvey
biography and fact sheet, 24 photographs, two audio clips of Garvey's speeches, and a
bibliography of secondary works. From the James S. Coleman African Studies Center of the
University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA).
The online documents include:
- Garvey's autobiographical article, "The Negro's Greatest Enemy," Current History, September 1923
- Garvey's reports in The Negro World on the UNIA conventions, 1920, 1924
- The UNIA petition to President Calvin Coolidge, 1924
- FBI agents' reports on "Negro Radical Activities in New York City," 1919, 1920.
The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League http://www.unia-acl.org
The official site of the current embodiment of Garvey's vision, for which the FAQ page provides
the best introduction. Includes documents, press releases, a review of Garveyism, and general
association information.
The online documents include:
- The Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World, 1920
- Garvey's "Message to the Negroes of the World from Atlanta Prison" (the "Whirlwind Message"), 1925
- The UNIA pledge of allegiance, "This Flag of Mine," to the red, green, and black flag
adopted in 1920.
Harlem: 1920-1940--An African American Community
- Marcus Mosiah Garvey http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/text/garvey.html
- A UNIA Parade http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/text/unia_slide.html
- A Silent Protest http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/text/silentPTEMPLATE. html
Three sections from the online exhibition Harlem: 1920-1940--An African American Community
from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library. The
exhibition is supplemented with a timeline, searchable database, bibliography, weblinks, and a
teacher resource page on the use of photography and oral history in historical research.
"The American Antecedents of Marcus Garvey"
http://www.nbufront.org/html/MastersMuseums/JHClarke/Contemporaries/Marcus GarveyAntecedents.html
An analysis of the factors that created "the atmosphere into which a Marcus Garvey could emerge" by the historian John Henrik Clarke, who fostered African-American studies at Hunter College and Cornell University. From the John Henrik Clarke Virtual Museum on the Web site of
the National Black United Front.
"Marcus Garvey, Father Divine and the Gender Politics of Race Difference and Race Neutrality"
http://128.220.50.88/demo/american_quarterly/48.1satter.html#authbio
A reconsideration of Garvey's rejection of Father Divine's movement, by Dr. Baryl Satter,
assistant professor of history at Rutgers University, published in American Quarterly 48.1 (1996).
Religious Movements Homepage at the University of Virginia
- Rastafarians http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~jkh8x/soc257/nrms/rast.html
- The Universal Peace Mission Movement of Father Divine http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/ ~jkh8x/soc257/nrms/Fatherd.html
Carefully researched overviews of these two religious movements related to Garveyism. Two of
the many profiles on this excellent site by Dr. Jeffrey K. Hadden, professor of sociology at the
University of Virginia, and students in his course on the sociology of religion.
George Alexander McGuire and the African Orthodox Church
http://sys1.pitts.emory.edu/text/rg005.html
A biography of Rev. George Alexander McGuire, who left the UNIA to found the black-nationalist African Orthodox Church. From the description of the church's records at Emory
University.
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