Marcus Garvey: The Harlem Years
1974; Indiana University Press; Issue: 46 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2934951
ISSN0041-1191
Autores Tópico(s)African history and culture studies
ResumoThere is now a renaissance of interest in the life of Marcus Garvey. The African Independence Explosion, that started in 1957 when the former West African colony called the Gold Coast, became an independent country, now called Ghana, helped to set this renaissance in motion. Some of Marcus Garvey's dreams about African redemption were being realized. In his lifetime, he was a man who had a stubborn belief in the impossible, and came close to achieving it. During the uncertain years that followed the First World War, he built the largest Black mass movement that this country has ever seen. There was never a leader like him, before or since. His popularity was universal, his program for the redemption of Africa and the return of African people to their motherland, shook the foundations of three empires.
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