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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...
Last month Marcus Garvey's term was commuted by President Coolidge, at the insistence of Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent. Since Marcus Garvey had never taken out his final citizenship papers, he was eligible for deportation as an undesirable alien...
When Amy Garvey heard that her husband was to leave Atlanta, she beamed and bustled in her Harlem apartment. She did not believe they could deport Marcus Garvey. And she did believe Marcus Garvey still had $500,000 of the five millions he collected from his fellow Negroes...
...Garvey's hopes soon faded. Last week, to a chorus of "Amens" and "Ain't-that-the-truths," Marcus Garvey made his farewell |speech from the top deck of the S.S. Saramacca, sailing from New Orleans to Panama, whence Marcus Garvey was to be shunted along to Jamaica. "His Highness, the Potentate" was in excellent form and spirits. "I leave America fully as happy as when I came," he elucidated, "in that mv relationship with the Negro People was most pleasant and inspiring, and I shall work forever in their behalf...
...artist calls it a bird, so do I. In this there are certain elements of a bird. The profile suggests perhaps the breast of a bird." "It might also suggest the keel of a boat or the crescent of a new moon," said Presiding Justice Waite. Assistant Attorney General Marcus Higgenbotham said: "A mechanic could have done this thing." Countered Sculptor Epstein: "No ... he could have polished this but he could not have conceived it." Finally, sick of a nagging, abstruse controversy, Justice Waite intelligently decided to delay a decision until testimony from Birdmaker Brancusi, now in Paris, could...