Marcus Garvey

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. Meer

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. Meer

Spans the great divide in the affairs of the American Garvey movement that resulted from the imprisonment of its leader - Marcus Garvey - in 1925. This work tells the story of Garvey's failed efforts to win the appeal against his conviction for mail fraud, his incarceration, and the massive grass-roots petition movement mobilized in his defense. Meer

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. Meer