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The Speech

Source

The Nationalism Reader, eds. Omar Dahbour and Micheline R. Ishay (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1995).

The Speech

Background Cont.

- Held at the 2nd International Convention of Negros

- Begins with a statement on growth of UNIA

- Angered over treatment after returning from fighting over WWI

- Opened up discussion for social change.

- Sadly too early for a real discussion.

- Founded Universal Negro Improvement Association

- Arrested for Mail Fraud in 1923

- Deported back to Jamaica in 1927

The Speech

Background

- Marcus was overall way ahead of his time period with his ideals.

- Subsequent speeches during the Civil Rights movement resembled his.

- Fiery Jamaican

- Born in 1887

- Arrived in New York in 1916

- Owned large corporations like:

  • Negro World Newspaper
  • Black Star Line
  • Negros Factory Corporation

The Speech

- Claims slaves were not freed by Abraham Lincoln,

- "We are industrial slaves, we are social slaves, we are political slaves

Marcus Garvey - Liberty Hall 1921

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