Term Papers on Black History

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Black History

African-American History II

Exam II

     These essays will discuss the philosophy,  career,  and historical significance of Marcus Garvey,  Martin
Luther King,  Jr.  and Malcolm X.  These were some of the most influential men during early 1900’s and
1960’s.  Their attempts to tear down the barriers of racism and discrimination benefited the civil rights
movement tremendously.  Their voices and ideology are still heard today,  equality.
     The final essay will address and discuss the events and processes that deal with  of the Great Migration
of the early 1900’s.

Marcus Garvey:

     He was born Aug. 17, 1887,  St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica,  and died June 10, 1940, London, Eng.   Garvey
attended school in Jamaica until he was 14. He traveled through  Central America and living in London
from 1912 to 1914, upon his return to Jamaica, he founded,  along with some of his friends,  the Universal
Negro Improvement and Conservation Association and African Communities League, usually called the
Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), dedicated to racial pride, economic self-sufficiency,
and the formation of an independent black nation in Africa. The UNIA also sought to build in Africa a
black-governed nation.  This was Aug. 1914.  Garvey wanted a “back to Africa” for all African-Americans.
The UNIA was to be part of that movement. The organization did not transport a single person to Africa,
its influence reached multitudes on both sides of the Atlantic, and it proved to be a forerunner of black
nationalism, which emerged in the U.S. after World War II.
     Failing to attract a following in Jamaica,  Garvey went to see B. T. Washington in the United States,  the
year was 1916. Garvey soon established branches of the UNIA in Harlem and the other principal ghettos of
the North. The mission was to unite all blacks of the world into one great body to organize a government
absolutely their own.  The motto of the UNIA was:  one God  -  one Aim  -  one Destiny.   By 1919 the
rising Garvey claimed a following of about 2,000,000.   From the platform of the Association's Liberty Hall
in Harlem, he spoke of a "new Negro," proud of being black.  The main problem Garvey had in relating to
African-Americans in the United States was he did not experience the oppression of slavery.  He had not
walked in “their” shoes,  but he could talk the talk.  Garvey is credited with as the black leader who
organized the first important American black nationalist movement in the years 1919-26.  This movement
was centered in New York City's Harlem distri!
ct.
     He was also an entrepreneur with many business interests.  He started a newspaper,  the Negro World,
this informed blacks that racial prejudice was an integral part of white society and appealing to them was
useless.  He taught that blacks would be respected only when they were economically strong.  He was
instrumental in starting several organizations,  these included the Universal Black Cross Nurses,  Universal
African Motors Crops,  and the Black Star Steamship Line.
     One of his major accomplishments was reached at the height of his power in 1920, when he presided
over the first convention of the United Negro People of the World.  There was over 25,000 attendees with
representation from around the world.  Garvey boasted of high numbers of members (4-6 million) in the
UNIA but the reality was
between 500,000 - 1 million true members. Garvey had a strong appeal to poor blacks in urban ghettos, but
most black leaders in the U.S. criticized him as an impostor, particularly after he announced, in New York,
the founding of the Empire of Africa, with himself as provisional president.
     His botchy business methods brought him bitter enemies among established black leaders, including
labor leader A. Philip Randolph and W.E.B. Du Bois, head of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Garvey denounced the NAACP and many black leaders,
asserting that the...

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