Yet for part of the 1920s, when he led the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem, he was arguably the most influential black man in America and perhaps the world.
15) AMY ASHWOOD GARVEY At the young age of seventeen, in 1914, Amy Ashwood co-founded (with Marcus Garvey) the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in Jamaica.
From Marcus Garvey, who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association, to Dennis Kimbro, author of Think and Grow Rich, this resource offers great information about the contributors.
He met and/or corresponded with every American President from Cleveland to Taft; exchanged letters with people of color throughout the globe, including his mentors Edward Blyden and Alexander Crummell; published articles in African, West Indian, European, and American journals; wrote historical pamphlets, political tracts, short stories, novels, plays, and poetry; and founded or belonged to organizations such as the Afro-American League, the American Negro Academy, the Niagara Movement, the Negro Society for Historical Research, the Negro Library Association, the Loyal Order of the Sons of Africa, and the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
Marcus Garvey's black nationalist organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, which shared little else with the black intelligentsia, also preferred "Negro.
Tony Martin, who has devoted his lengthy scholarly career to documenting Marcus Garvey's singular importance among leaders in the African diaspora, now turns to Garvey's first wife and Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) cofounder, Amy Ashwood Garvey, For anyone interested in the development of this global black nationalist organization between 1914 and 1920, this book provides some essential detail and perspective gleaned from Ashwood's privately held correspondence and papers, dozens of interviews, and an array of sources from U.
