Books by Marcus Garvey

Following the imprisonment of her husband in 1922, Amy Jacques Garvey set forth to preserve the dream of Black Nationalism and African independence. Collecting the letters, speeches and essays of Marcus Garvey, she produced the complete philosophies of one of the most controversial yet influential figures in 20th century Black America.

Distillation of the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association''s 1937 lectures on topics ranging from the attainment of universal knowledge to leadership, character, God, and the social system.

Volume XI of the Marcus Garvey papers

This invaluable archival project documents the impact and spread of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), the organization founded by Marcus Garvey in 1914 and led by him until his death in 1940.

Volume XIII of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers covers the period between August 1921 and August 1922. During this particularly tumultuous time, Garvey suffered legal, political, and financial trouble, while the UNIA struggled to grow throughout the Caribbean.

Charts the magnetic, controversial Pan-African leader's career from his deportation from the United States in November 1927 to his death in England in 1940. The volume begins with Marcus Garvey's triumphant welcome in Jamaica, his tour abroad, and his entry into Jamaican party politics.

Reveals the history of Marcus Garvey and the UNIA: the aftermath of the tumultuous 1922 convention. This title demonstrates how important Marcus Garvey and the mass movement he controlled were to Afro-American history.

After September of 1921, membership declined and morale in the UNIA began to weaken. The final failure of the Black Star Line resulted when negotiations with the United States Chipping Board for the purchase of the long proposed African ship collapsed in March 1922. Deals with the period of crisis in the UNIA's political and economic fortunes.