Marcus Garvey: toward Black Nationhood
(Videocassette)

Marcus Garvey's writings read by Roscoe Lee Browne.

Executive producer, Werner Koch ; Producer, Orville Bennett ... [et al.] ; Narrator Ossie Davis.

"Marcus Mosiah Garvey, b. Jamaica 1887, d. 1940, organized the black nationalist movement of the 1920's in the United States. Garvey went to New York City in 1916 and recruited followers for his Universal Negro Improvement Assosiation. Its program was to unite all black peoples through the establishment in Africa of a country and government of their own. garvey was a magnetic speaker and led his followers in parades through Harlem. In 1921 he claimed nearly 1 million followers. Garvey's newspaper, Negro World, carried his views to all parts of the United States. He preached economic independence, pride of a race, and the need for black Americans to return to Africa. He organized a steamship company, the Black Star Line, to provide a commercial link among all the black peoples of the world. His methods of selling stock in the line led to his conviction of U.S. mail fraud and he served 3 years of a 5 year sentence, pardoned by Pres. Coolidge and deported to Jamaica in 1927. There he died celebrated as a National Hero in 1940"