Word: garveyism
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...Marcus Garvey, standing on his constitutional rights, continued to conduct his own defense in his trial for misuse of the mails in promoting the Black Star Line (TIME, June...
...would save time," Judge Mack, who was presiding, told Mr. Garvey, "if I should state now that every objection made by you heretofore has been overruled. You took an exception in every case and that only delayed the procedure. I am not conducting a school for lawyers...
Among the witnesses called by Garvey were "Sir" James O'Mealley, a master of Calaba College, Jamaica (sent by Garvey as a delegate to the League of Nations), the Rev. Frederick Augustus Toote (a director of the Black Star Line), "Lady " Bruce, "Duchess of Uganda" (titles conferred upon her husband by Garvey), James Hercules (a boatswain of one of the Black Star Liners) and Amy Jacques Garvey (the defendant's second wife...
...Marcus Garvey. He betrayed his race...
...trial of the Black Star Line Company revealed that the line has $31.75 in the bank and liabilities of $731,432, One of Garvey's former agents, " Sir" Sydney de Bourg, Knight Commander of the Order of the Nile, Leader of the Far Western Provinces of the West Indies, Duke of Nigeria and Duke of Uganda, testified to Garvey's extravagance in the West Indies, asserting that he had " gone broke at the races." The Assistant Treasurer of the line testified that Garvey had appropriated for himself money collected for the Association and for the Black Star Line. Unless Marcus...