Word: jamaican
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authors-expert anthropologists-after laboriously measuring and tabulating the legs and calves of Smith girls, solemnly announce that the calves are "considerably larger than those of Jamaican women!" This is due, they claim, to athletic exercises. Remarkable scientific discovery...
Five years ago Marcus Garvey, orotund Jamaican, paraded through Harlem, the cultural capital of his race in the U.S., in uniforms brightly befitting "His Highness the Potentate of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Provisional General of Africa." Then he became a janitor of Atlanta Penitentiary. Four years ago he was convicted of fraudulent use of the U.S. mails in selling the stock of Black Star LIne, by which he proposed to transport U.S. Negroes to their aboriginal home and for which he actually purchased a second-hand flagship. He began serving a five-year term...
...August, 1920, at Liberty Hall, Manhattan, a Jamaican Negro, aged 36, with broad nose, and of the true Negro type, was publicly married by 30 officiating clergymen in the presence of 3,000 Negro delegates from all over the world...