Steven Hahn’s essay advances several claims based on his assessment of the historical scholarship on Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). While Professor Hahn ...

On July 20, 1914, Marcus Garvey, at the age of twenty-eight, founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association. His co-founder was Amy Ashwood, who would later become his first wife. The U.N.I.A ...

Many would be “no good there,” he once wrote, according to the book “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey.” J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI also investigated Garvey and the UNIA.

Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association form a critical link in black America's centuries-long struggle for freedom, justice, and equality. As the leader of the largest ...

But Garvey and Ashwood kept in touch through letters and Amy eventually joined Marcus in New York in 1918. She worked by his side at UNIA and even saved him from an assassination attempt in ...

Edgar Hoover, who hired Black agents to infiltrate Garvey’s UNIA, leading to his conviction and eventual deportation. Marcus Garvey was a prominent orator and activist who advocated for Black ...

Molefi Kete Asante, professor and chair of the Africology and African American studies department at Temple University in Philadelphia, describes Marcus ... and a Garvey expert. The UNIA also ...

Marcus Garvey ignited one of the most phenomenal social ... His organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), advocated for Pan-African awareness with the slogan “One God ...

Marcus Garvey, born in Jamaica when it was still a British colony, went on to found the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Kingston. He was the first person after the country’s ...

Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), which "aimed ... Bob Marley and many others. "Marcus ...