THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE 1920S
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Marcus Garvey
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Booker T. Washington
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W.E.B. DuBois
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Langston Hughes
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Detailed explanation-1: -Marcus Garvey and his organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), represent the largest mass movement in African-American history. Proclaiming a black nationalist “Back to Africa ” message, Garvey and the UNIA established 700 branches in thirty-eight states by the early 1920s.
Detailed explanation-2: -Malcolm X’s expression of black pride and self-determination continued to resonate with and engage many African Americans long after his death in February 1965.
Detailed explanation-3: -Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican-born Black nationalist and leader of the Pan-Africanism movement, which sought to unify and connect people of African descent worldwide.
Detailed explanation-4: -Garvey laid forth a vision for a new world-a world where all people of African origin, on every continent, were united, self-sufficient and proud. It was the manifestation of an idea known as Pan-Africanism. Garvey began developing this broad sense of the world at an early age.