Word: garveyism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...internationalism and the hope it offered for the liberation of all the oppressed in "Africa, Asia, in America and the islands of the sea." One has to remind oneself that the lecture must have been a tribute to DuBois: the true begetter of Pan-Africanism, and not to Marcus Garvey, the "black Zionist." George Padmore in his brilliant book on Pan-Africanism had made a pertinent observation on the matter: "While Garvey opposed white race prejudice with black, DuBois combated racial arrogance and social chauvinism on both sides. This he did by making a scientific study of the so-called...
...world and time, all Johnson could see were follow blacks only wishing to emulate Whitely in their own modest fashion. DuBois NAACP was then a fledgling organization, unable to effect any vigorous social change: and Marcus Garvey, whose separatist Universal Negro Improvement Association Johnson later preached for, had not yet landed on U. S. shores...
...African heritage and to use it as a cultural resource, a theme echoed today by Martinique-born Poet-Dramatist Aime Cesaire. Accordingly, many of the Caribbean's contemporary radicals, like their counterparts in the U.S., talk about a spiritual return to Africa. Says Jamaica's Marcus Garvey Jr., whose late father emigrated to Harlem and founded a Back to Africa movement there in the early 1920s: "We want to be linked with the Greater Africa." Similarly, Dr. M.B. Abeng Doonquah envisions a Jamaica based on the "African socialism" of Ghana's deposed leader Kwame Nkrumah and speaks...
...Originally the colors of Marcus Garvey's Back-to-Africa movement in the early 1920s, they are now used by Ron Karenga's US movement, the Black Panthers and many young black students...