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Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons
A Centennial Companion to the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers
Edited by Robert A. Hill and Barbara Bair.
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350 pages,
August 1987, Available worldwide
Categories: History; United States History; African American Studies

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"Now is our chance, through these important volumes, to finally begin to come to terms with the significance of Garvey's complex, fascinating career and the meaning of the movement he built."—Lawrence Levine, The New Republic

"The Garvey Papers will reshape our understanding of the history of black nationalism and perhaps increase our understanding of contemporary black politics."—Clayborne Carson, The Nation
"I do not speak carelessly or recklessly but with a definite object of helping the people, especially those of my race, to know, to understand, and to realize themselves."—Marcus Garvey, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1937

A popular companion to the scholarly edition of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, this volume is a collection of autobiographical and philosophical works produced by Garvey in the period from his imprisonment in Atlanta to his death in London in 1940.
Robert A. Hill is Associate Professor of History at UCLA and director of the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project [African Studies Center], for which Barbara Bair serves as associate editor.