1st Edition

The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942

By Claudrena N. Harold Copyright 2007
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South provides the first detailed examination of the Universal Negro Improvement Association's rise, maturation, and eventual decline in the urban South between 1918 and 1942. It examines the ways in which Southern black workers fused locally-based traditions, ideologies, and strategies of resistance with the Pan-African agenda of the UNIA... Read more

Introduction.  1. Garveyism and the Rise of New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South  2. We Are Constantly on the Firing Line: The Garvey Movement in New Orleans, 1920-1935  3. I am a Stranger Here: Black Bahamians and the Garvey Movement in Miami, Florida, 1920-1933  4. Garveyism, Black Workers, and the Struggle for African Repatriation in Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1918-1942.  Conclusion: Life After the Garvey Movement

Biography

Claudrena N. Harold is an Assistant Professor in the History Department and the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia. Her research and teaching interests include African American social and cultural history, black-nationalist and Pan-African movements, and labor politics.