Grassroots Garveyism : the Universal Negro Improvement Association in the rural South, 1920-1927 / Mary G. Rolinson.

By:

Rolinson, Mary G

Series: The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture | John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culturePublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2007.Description: xii, 286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780807830925
0807830925
9780807857953
0807857955

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

History.

Additional physical formats: Grassroots Garveyism.DDC classification:

305.896/073 22

LOC classification:

E185.61 .R745 2007

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Contents:

Introduction: Rediscovering Southern Garveyism 1 -- 1 Antecedents 24 -- 3 Growth 72 -- 4 Members 103 -- 5 Appeal 131 -- 6 Transition 161 -- Epilogue: Legacy 192 -- Appendix A UNIA Divisions in the Eleven States of the Former Confederacy 197 -- Appendix B Numbers of Southern Members of UNIA Divisions by State 200 -- Appendix C Numbers of Sympathizers Involved in Mass Meetings and Petitions for Garvey's Release from Jail and Prison, 1923-1927 201 -- Appendix D Phases of Organization of UNIA Divisions in the South by State 202 -- Appendix E Ministers as Southern UNIA Officers, 1926-1928 203 -- Appendix F Profiles of UNIA Members in Georgia, Arkansas, and Mississippi, 1922-1928, and NAACP Branch Leaders in Georgia, 1917-1920 204 -- Appendix G Women Organizers in the UNIA in the South, 1922-1928 214.

Summary: The black separatist movement led by Marcus Garvey has long been viewed as a phenomenon of African American organization in the urban North. But as Mary Rolinson demonstrates, the largest number of Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) divisions and Garvey's most devoted and loyal followers were found in the southern Black Belt. Tracing the path of organizers from northern cities to Virginia, and then from the Upper to the Deep South, Rolinson remaps the movement to include this vital but overlooked region. Rolinson shows how Garvey's southern constituency sprang from cities, countryside churches, and sharecropper cabins. Southern Garveyites adopted pertinent elements of the movement's ideology and developed strategies for community self-defense and self-determination. These southern African Americans maintained a spiritual attachment to their African identities and developed a fiercely racial nationalism, building on the rhetoric and experiences of black organizers from the nineteenth-century South. Garveyism provided a common bond during the upheaval of the Great Migration, Rolinson contends, and even after the UNIA had all but disappeared in the South in the 1930s, the movement's tenets of race organization, unity, and pride continued to flourish in other forms of black protest for generations. (Publisher).

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-267) and index.

The black separatist movement led by Marcus Garvey has long been viewed as a phenomenon of African American organization in the urban North. But as Mary Rolinson demonstrates, the largest number of Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) divisions and Garvey's most devoted and loyal followers were found in the southern Black Belt. Tracing the path of organizers from northern cities to Virginia, and then from the Upper to the Deep South, Rolinson remaps the movement to include this vital but overlooked region. Rolinson shows how Garvey's southern constituency sprang from cities, countryside churches, and sharecropper cabins. Southern Garveyites adopted pertinent elements of the movement's ideology and developed strategies for community self-defense and self-determination. These southern African Americans maintained a spiritual attachment to their African identities and developed a fiercely racial nationalism, building on the rhetoric and experiences of black organizers from the nineteenth-century South. Garveyism provided a common bond during the upheaval of the Great Migration, Rolinson contends, and even after the UNIA had all but disappeared in the South in the 1930s, the movement's tenets of race organization, unity, and pride continued to flourish in other forms of black protest for generations. (Publisher).

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