Word: garvey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want no colored people in this insurance and will live forever., when I come in off the Road she put on her coat and hat & run out say father Divine tell her to make me take care of her and live like sister & Bro. she claim that he & Marcus Garvey is working together that he is a west Indian, although the government Disposed of Garvey he come with a different line, such as holding a meeting in Newark, charging $1 per head for the bus ride, and the religious boat rides...
...everything. . . . my wife say she came in from the meeting and a big light was flashing all around me, claiming it was God coming & calling me ... he don't take no money, all is turned over to his secretary . . . [my wife] claim they the government got something on Garvey for receiving money through the mail, but he will send it back if you send him any through the mail. so in closing hoping you & your staff will do all you can in closing such places as that...
...substitute for Tenor John McCormack, who refused an offer of $5,000 to come and sing (his daughter is being married shortly in Ireland), the Tribune found a fat barroom baritone named Tom Garvey, who was carefully planted in the audience. At the director's request for "any singing Irishman to take McCormack's place." he rose and throbbed out "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" and "Mother Macree" with sentimental gusto...
Sweet Chariot. The first act of this play was unmistakably suggested by the life of Marcus Garvey, discredited Negro leader, dreamer of black glories in Africa for himself and his U. S. following (TIME, Jan. 11, 1923; Feb. 16, 1925)- The remainder is purely fictional. Marius Harvey (Frank Wilson) and his associates have planned a Back-to-Africa movement for Negroes, chartered boats, expecting to make money on the scheme. But when Marius Harvey assembles his clients in a hall to tell his plans, his eloquence carries him away, he becomes spiritually involved in the mission of leading his people...