USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME OF THE 1920S

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who caused African Americans to reexamine their African heritage?
A
Eli Whitney
B
Willard Filmore
C
Marcus Garvey
D
Francis Willard
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Content at first with accommodation, on his return to Jamaica, he aspired to open a Tuskegee-type industrial training school. In 1916 he came to America at Booker T. Washington’s invitation, but arrived just after Washington died. Garvey arrived in America at the dawn of the “New Negro” era.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the United States, he was a noted civil rights activist who founded the Negro World newspaper, a shipping company called Black Star Line and the Universal Negro Improvement Association, or UNIA, a fraternal organization of black nationalists.

Detailed explanation-3: -128-2: How do you think Garvey felt that African Independence would benefit Black Americans? Garvey thinks that African independence happened with such force and power and it is going to keep going strong. They will keep fighting for their freedom.

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