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Marcus Garvey presided over the occasion as chairman. It was at this event where he was duly elected Provisional President of Africa. Among the articles [2] is Declaration 39 which states as follows: "That the colors, Red, Black and Green, be the colors of the Negro race." It is from that statement the Red, Black and Green flag came into existence.
Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL, commonly known as UNIA), through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa.
Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (Greenwood, 1976) online Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant by Jonathan P; Spiro, University of Vermont Press (2009), ISBN 978-1-58465-715-6
Garvey argued that mixed-race people would be bred out of existence. [27] Cronon believed that Garvey exhibited "antipathy and distrust of anybody but the darkest-skinned Negroes"; [ 28 ] the hostility towards black people whose African blood was not considered "pure" was a sentiment which Garvey shared with Blyden.
In a 1927 report of a 1921 speech appearing in the Negro World weekly newspaper, Marcus Garvey was quoted as saying: [10] Show me the race or the nation without a flag, and I will show you a race of people without any pride. Aye! In song and mimicry they have said, "Every race has a flag but the coon." How true! Aye! But that was said of us ...
In a 1927 report of a 1921 speech appearing in the Negro World weekly newspaper, Marcus Garvey was quoted as saying, [8] Show me the race or the nation without a flag, and I will show you a race of people without any pride. Aye! In song and mimicry they have said, "Every race has a flag but the coon." How true! Aye! But that was said of us four ...
Under the editorship of Amy Jacques Garvey the paper featured a full page called "Our Women and What They Think". Negro World also played an important part in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. The paper was a focal point for publication on the arts and African-American culture, including poetry, [ 8 ] commentary on theatre and music, and ...
Woodson became a regular columnist for Garvey's weekly Negro World. [22] Garvey believed Afro-Americans should embrace segregation, as he contended that race relations were and always would be antagonistic, and his ultimate objective was a "Back-to-Africa" plan as he believed all Afro-Americans should move to Africa.