the struggles of four of the most influential leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, from Frederick Douglass to Marcus Garvey to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X
Archer, Jules
2016
Photographs and text trace the progression of the civil rights movement and its effect on history through biographical sketches of four prominent and influential African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X.
Uses a wealth of archival film, photographs and documents to uncover the story of this Jamaican immigrant, who between 1916 and 1921 built the largest black mass movement in world history. It explores Garvey's dramatic successes and failures before his fall into obscurity. Among the film's most powerful sequences are interviews with people who witnessed the Garvey movement first hand more than 80 years ago. These interviews communicate the appeal of Garvey's revolutionary ideas to a generation of African Americans , and reveal how he invested hundreds and thousands of black men and women with a newfound sense of pride.
Recounts the life and work of controversial African-American leader Marcus Garvey, and features archivalfootage and interviews with surviving members of Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association.
A biography of the life of Jamaican publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, Marcus Garvey, with commentary on his contributions to society.
A biography of Marcus Garvey that discusses his childhood in Jamaica, founding of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, entrepreneurial success, meeting with the imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, arrest, and more.
A biography of the black leader who started a "Back-to-Africa" movement in the United States, believing blacks would never receive justice in countries woth a white majority.
Examines the life and achievements of Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, discussing his youth in Jamaica, and looking at events that prompted him to lead the crusade to better the lives of black people by calling for a return to power in Africa.
A biography of the African-American leader who started a "Back-to-Africa" movement in the United States, believing blacks would never receive justice in countries with a white majority.
Profiles the life and works of Marcus Garvey, the controversial leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association during the early twentieth century, and his attempts to organize the Pan-African movement, designed to create a separate nation in Africa.
