Word: garveyism
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...Universal Negro Improvement Association is purely Negro in inspiration and exercises its imagination enough to be "universal." It is Marcus Garvey's great organization-great not only in originality, but perhaps also in charlatanism. Garvey, fired with a West Indian imagination, "kindled" the idea. Just at present, he is out on bail, following conviction for using the mails to defraud (TIME, June 11, 1923), in connection with selling stock in the Black Star Line-a steamship company, formed to carry Negroes back to Africa. The company's only significant maritime achievement was to take Garvey and some...
...additional names are: for Odist, Alexander Cameron Sedgwick of Stockbridge; for Treasurer, Gerald Garvey Dolphin of Scranton, Pa.; for Chorister, Addison Sylvan Simmons of Dorchester; for Poet, Charles, Hill Morgan 2nd of Worcester, and John Warren Knedler Jr. of Moscow...
...Gerald Garvey Dolphin...
...attitude shown by these letters is by no means universal among Negroes. Some members of his own race freely condemned the pugilist Johnson for marrying a " white." It was also one of the planks in the platform of the once popular Marcus Garvey, now convicted of fraud, that Negroes should not contract mixed marriages...
...Provisional President of Africa, Marcus Garvey, convicted of using the mails to defraud in promotion of the Black Star Line, is in jail and appears likely to remain there for some time at least. Judge Mack of the Federal Court in New York gave him the maximum sentence-five years in jail and $1,000 fine. Mr. Garvey was also refused bail pending his appeal for a retrial...