Grassroots Garveyism

The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Discrimination & Race Relations, Cultural Studies, African-American Studies, History, Americas, United States
Cover of the book Grassroots Garveyism by Mary G. Rolinson, The University of North Carolina Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Mary G. Rolinson ISBN: 9780807872789
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press Publication: February 1, 2012
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press Language: English
Author: Mary G. Rolinson
ISBN: 9780807872789
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Publication: February 1, 2012
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Language: English

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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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.

More books from The University of North Carolina Press

Cover of the book Depression Folk by Mary G. Rolinson
Cover of the book Dixie Dharma by Mary G. Rolinson
Cover of the book Seasons of Change by Mary G. Rolinson
Cover of the book North Carolina Through Four Centuries by Mary G. Rolinson
Cover of the book Peaches by Mary G. Rolinson
Cover of the book Zeb Vance by Mary G. Rolinson
Cover of the book Covered with Glory by Mary G. Rolinson
Cover of the book Sweet Carolina by Mary G. Rolinson
Cover of the book The Experiential Caribbean by Mary G. Rolinson
Cover of the book City of a Million Dreams by Mary G. Rolinson
Cover of the book Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil by Mary G. Rolinson
Cover of the book Rereading Doris Lessing by Mary G. Rolinson
Cover of the book Underdevelopment and the Development of Law by Mary G. Rolinson
Cover of the book Emancipation's Diaspora by Mary G. Rolinson
Cover of the book Race, Poverty, and American Cities by Mary G. Rolinson
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy