Black Moses
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Author_E.David Cronon
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Product details
- ISBN 9780299012144
- Weight: 384g
- Dimensions: 141 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 30 Mar 1960
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the early twentieth century, Marcus Garvey sowed the seeds of a new black pride and determination. Attacked by the black intelligentsia and ridiculed by the white press, this Jamaican immigrant astonished all with his black nationalist rhetoric. In just four years, he built the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), the largest and most powerful all-black organization the nation had ever seen. With hundreds of branches, throughout the United States, the UNIA represented Garvey’s greatest accomplishment and, ironically, the source of his public disgrace. Black Moses brings this controversial figure to life and recovers the significance of his life and work.
E. David Cronon is professor emeritus of history and dean emeritus of the College of Letters and Sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He is the author of numerous books and articles on twentieth-century American history, including Labor and the New Deal.
