Black Moses: The Story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association

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Cronon, E. David

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University of Wisconsin Press

In the early twentieth century, Marcus Garvey sowed the seeds of a new black pride and determination. Attacked by the black intelligentsia and ridiculed by the white press, this Jamaican immigrant astonished all with his black nationalist rhetoric.  In just four years, he built the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), the largest and most powerful all-black organization the nation had ever seen.  With hundreds of branches, throughout the United States, the UNIA represented Garvey’s greatest accomplishment and, ironically, the source of his public disgrace.  Black Moses brings this controversial figure to life and recovers the significance of his life and work.“Those who are interested in the revolutionary aspects of the twentieth century in America should not miss Cronon’s book. It makes exciting reading.”—The Nation“A very readable, factual, and well-documented biography of Marcus Garvey.”—The Crisis, NAACP“In a short, swiftly moving, penetrating biography, Mr. Cronon has made the first real attempt to narrate the Garvey story. From the Jamaican's traumatic race experiences on the West Indian island to dizzy success and inglorious failure on the mainland, the major outlines are here etched with sympathy, understanding, and insight.”—Mississippi Valley Historical Review (Now the Journal of American History).“Good reading for all serious history students.”—Jet“A vivid, detailed, and sound portrait of a man and his dreams.”—Political Science Quarterly

Black Moses: The story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association

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Black Moses

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<p>In the early twentieth century, Marcus Garvey sowed the seeds of a new black pride and determination. Attacked by the black intelligentsia and ridiculed by the white press, this Jamaican immigrant astonished all with his black nationalist rhetoric. In just four years, he built the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), the largest and most powerful all-black organization the nation had ever seen. With hundreds of branches, throughout the United States, the UNIA represented Garvey's greatest accomplishment and, ironically, the source of his public disgrace. Black Moses brings this controversial figure to life and recovers the significance of his life and work. "Those who are interested in the revolutionary aspects of the twentieth century in America should not miss Cronon's book. It makes exciting reading". -The Nation "A very readable, factual, and well-documented biography of Marcus Garvey". -The Crisis, NAACP "In a short, swiftly moving, penetrating biography, Mr. Cronon has made the first real attempt to narrate the Garvey story. From the Jamaican's traumatic race experiences on the West Indian island to dizzy success and inglorious failure on the mainland, the major outlines are here etched with sympathy, understanding, and insight". -Mississippi Valley Historical Review (Now the Journal of American History). "Good reading for all serious history students". -Jet "A vivid, detailed, and sound portrait of a man and his dreams". -Political Science Quarterly</p>

Josephus Daniels in Mexico

<p>The White House announcement in March, 1933, that President Roosevelt had appointed Josephus Daniels ambassador to Mexico resulted in an immediate and loud cry of protest from the Mexican people. For in 1914 when the U.S. Navy seized Veracruz, killing more than one hundred Mexicans, the man who gave the order was Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, and his Assistant Secretary of the Navy at that time was Franklin D. Roosevelt. From the standpoint of long-range benefit to Mexico and the United States, Roosevelt could have made no better choice than Daniels Ironically, the 'villain' of the Veracruz incident proved to be one of the administration's staunchest foes of 'gunboatism' in American diplomacy. This book, while focusing on the work of Ambassador Daniels in Mexico from 1933 through 1941, throws important new light on the debate within the Roosevelt administration as to the nature and application of the Good Neighbor Policy.</p>

Univ of Wisconsin Pr

A great university in turbulent timesFrom the deluge of World War II vets on the GI bill through the 1960s radicalism that made national headlines, the University of Wisconsin's history has been a part of American history. Historians, as well as the University's hundreds of thousands of alumni, faculty, staff, and students, will welcome this fourth volume covering the University's recent past.E. David Cronon and John W. Jenkins record in lively, readable prose a period that began with the influx of returning war veterans, more than doubling the University's enrollment in a single year. They explore the dark McCarthy era of loyalty oaths and blacklists during the 1950s and detail the actions of University president E. B. Fred, who stood out among American academic leaders for his commitment to principle and fair play.The turbulent 1960s, which opened with students reporting on their summertime Freedom Ride experiences throughout the American South and ended with the Vietnam War–related bombing of Sterling Hall in 1970, are a record of how an era of idealism gave way to one characterized by angry dissent and disorder, the rise of women's liberation, flower power, black power, and student power.The history concludes with the passage of legislation creating the University of Wisconsin System of campuses in 1971—an action that followed nearly three decades of experiments, compromises, and political struggles involving several governors.

Univ Of Wisconsin V4: Renewal To Revolution, 1945-1971

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