Universal Negro Improvement Association. - Negro with a hat: the rise and fall of Marcus Garvey

COLIN GRANT

The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey

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In memory of Christopher Grant, 19682008.
A wry, gentle, amused and thoroughly splendid fellow.

Colin Grant is the son of Jamaican parents who came to Britain in the late 1950s. He grew up in Luton and spent five years studying medicine at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel before turning to the stage. He has written and produced numerous plays including The Clinic, based on the lives of the photo journalists Don McCullin and Tim Page. He joined the BBC in 1989 and worked as a script editor and producer of arts programmes on the World Service before joining the radio Science Unit.

He lives in Brighton.

Section 1

Kingston Earthquake, 1907 ( National Library of Jamaica) Cowtail and hoe brigade (PBS) Jamaicans preparing a compressed air drill (General Research and Reference Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations) Marcus Garvey wedding photograph (Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations) Edward Wilmot Blyden (New York Public Library, Schomburg Center) Robert Love ( National Library of Jamaica) Dus Mohamed Ali, African Times and Orient Review, September 1913 (Adam Matthew Publications) A. Philip Randolph (PBS) Amy Ashwood, c.1920 (UNIA Papers Project, James S. Coleman African Studies Center, University College Los Angeles) Hubert Henry Harrison (Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations) The Reason Cartoon, 1920 (General Research and Reference Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations) A Negro Family Just Arrived in Chicago from the Rural South (Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations) Marcus Garvey, 1920 (Getty) UNIA Parade, Harlem, 1924 (Getty) W.E.B. Du Bois (Getty) Booker T. Washington (Getty) The Birth of a Nation, 1914 (Getty) Silent Protest, 1917 (Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations) Liberty Hall during 1921 UNIA convention (UNIA Papers Project, James S. Coleman African Studies Center, University College Los Angeles)

Section 2

Marcus Garvey in UNIA ceremonial regalia (Getty) J. Edgar Hoover (Getty) UNIA Convention Parade, 1920 (Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations) Claude McKay (Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations) UNIA Officials reviewing parade during 1922 convention (Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Frank Cass and Co. Ltd) Tulsa Race Riot (Tulsa Historical Society) W.E.B. Du Bois (New York Public Library, Schomburg Center) Garveyite Family, 1924 (James Van Der Zee) Madame C. J. Walker (Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations) Amy Jacques Garvey (UNIA Papers Project, James S. Coleman African Studies Center, University College Los Angeles) Certificate of Black Star Line Stock (Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations) Office buildings of the Black Star Line (Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations) Inspection of the SS Yarmouth (UNIA Papers Project, James S. Coleman African Studies Center, University College Los Angeles) UNIA delegation to Liberia, 1924 (General Research and Reference Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations) Garveyite Family (PBS) Mourners at the grave of John E. Bruce, 1924 (Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations) Garvey Must Go cartoon (Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations) Prison Docket of Marcus Garvey. Prisoner no. 19359, Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, 8 February, 1925 Garvey under escort to Manhattan House of Detention, 1925 ( Bettmann/Corbis) The Garvey Club, 1943 (Getty) Marcus Jacques Garvey and Julius Jacques Garvey, Jamaica 1940 (University of Carolina Press) Marcus Garvey giving farewell speech from desk of SS Saramacca, New Orleans, 2 December 1940 AP Bedou (Xavier University Archives and Special Collections, New Orleans) Marcus Garvey Memorial Notice, 1940 (Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations)