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Book

Selected writings and speeches of Marcus Garvey

Call Number

  • 921 G243 (CEN, POW)

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Publication Information

Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2004.

Physical Description

xx, 194 pages ; 21 cm.

Summary

A collection of the twentieth-century orator's writings and speeches, which focused on a message of African-American pride, unemployment, leadership, and emancipation.

Contents

  • Part 1: Autobiographical Essays and Extracts
  • Article "The Negro's Greatest Enemy"
  • Article "Great Ideals Know No Nationality"
  • Speech: "I Am a Negro."
  • Part 2: Speeches, Official Documents, and Editorial Articles
  • Article: "The West Indies in the Mirror of Truth."
  • Manifesto: "Declaration of the Rights of Negro Peoples"
  • Speech: "Unemployment"
  • Speech: "Leadership"
  • Speech: "Negros Will Stop at Nothing Short of Redemption of Motherland and Establishment of African Empire"
  • Speech: "The Handwriting Is on the Wall"
  • Speech: "Emancipation Day"
  • Article: "Statement on Arrest"
  • Speech: "The Hidden Spirit of America"
  • Sermon: "The Resurrection of the Negro"
  • Editorial" "Africa for the Africans"
  • Speech: "Hon. Marcus Garvey Tells of Interview with the Ku Klux Klan"
  • Speech: "Whether We Will Accept Civilization as It Is or Put It Under a Rigid Examination to Make It What It Ought to Be as Far as Our Race is Concerned"
  • Speech: "Climbing Upward"
  • Speech: " The 'Colored' or Negro Press"
  • Speech: "The Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association"
  • Editorial: "W.E. Burghardt Du Bois as a Hater of Dark "
  • People"
  • Editorial: "Who and What is a Negro?
  • Speech: "Biggest Case in the History of the Negro Race"
  • Editorial: "The Fight for Negro Rights and Liberty Began in Real Earnest"
  • Speech: "Last Speech before Incarceration in the Tombs Prison"
  • Editorial: :An Appeal to the Conscience of the Black Race to See Itself"
  • Editorial: " An Expose of the Caste system Among Negros"
  • Article: "Statement to Press on Release on Bail Pending Appeal"
  • Speech: "First Speech after Release from the Tombs"
  • Speech: "The Sign by Which We Conquer"
  • Editorial: "An Appeal to the Soul of White America"
  • Declaration: "What We Believe"
  • Speech: "In Honor of the Return to America of the Delegation Sent to Europe and Africa by the U.N.I.A. to negotiate for the Repatriation for Negroes to a Homeland of Their own Africa"
  • Speech: "The Work Started"
  • Speech: "First Message to the Negroes of the World form Atlanta Prison"
  • Editorial: "African Fundamentalism"
  • Editorial: "Message of Marcus Garvey to the Membership of U.N.I.A. from Atlanta Prison"
  • Editorial: "Statement of Conviction."

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