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Author:

Grant, Colin, 1961-

Title:

Negro with a hat : the rise and fall of Marcus Garvey and his dream of Mother Africa / Colin Grant.

Publisher:

Jonathan Cape,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

530 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Garvey, Marcus,--1887-1940.
Universal Negro Improvement Association.
African Americans--Biography.
Civil rights workers--United States.
Black nationalism--United States--History--20th century.
African Americans--Race identity.
Back to Africa movement.
Jamaica--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [456]-504) and index.

Contents:

Prologue : a premature death -- Bury the dead and take care of the living -- Almost an Englishman -- In the company of Negroes -- An ebony orator in Harlem -- No flag but the Stars and Stripes--and possibly the Union Jack -- If we must die -- How to manufacture a traitor -- Harlem speaks for scattered Ethiopia -- Flyin' home on the Black Star Line -- A star in the storm -- He who plays the king -- Last stop Liberia -- Not to mention his colour -- Behold the demagogue or misunderstood messiah -- Caging the tiger -- Into the furnace -- Silence Mr. Garvey -- Gone to foreign.

ISBN:

0224078682 (hbk.)
9780224078689 (hbk.)

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)