MARCUS GARVEY
Date Submitted: 01/31/2001 00:20:55
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 5 pages (1356 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 5 pages (1356 words)
“We declare to the world that Africa must be free, that the Negro race must be emancipated (p. 137 Altman, Susan. Extraordinary Black Americans.)” are the famous words delivered by Marcus Mosiah Garvey. Born a West Indian, he later became a powerful revolutionary who led the nation into the Civil Rights Movement. Garvey dedicated his life to the "uplifting" of the Negro and to millions of Black people everywhere, he represented dignity and self-respect. Like Malcolm …
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…since then, these very same ideas in a different perspective have had a favorable influence on the policies of many Negro leaders throughout history.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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©1989. Childrens Press: Chicago. pp. 137-138
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©1973, Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs.
Franklin, John H. Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century
©1982, University of Illinois Press: Chicago. pp. 105-138
Ploski, Harry A. The Negro Almanac.
©1971, Bellwether Publishing Company: New York. pp. 135-138 & 232
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