Twin City Herald

Marcus Garvey
Dies In London

Under the slogan: 'Africa for the Africans At Home and Abroad,' the Garvey movement rallied to its banner thousands of Negroes all over the world.

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Supporters of Garvey claim that at the heyday of the movement in 1929, the U.N.I.A. had over 3,000,000 members. Whether this was true or not, the Garvey movement was undoubtedly the largest mass organization ever developed under Negro auspices.

Money and members poured in from the African colonies, the West Indies, Guiana, Panama and Honduras. Its official organ, 'The Negro World,' was read wherever black folks lived. Many colonial governments even banned it, on the ground that it inspired the Negroes to aspire for national independence.

The greatest weakness of the Garvey movement was the lack of a constructive, practical program dealing with the economic, and social grievances of the Negroes in their different communities.

Tragic End

After his deportation from America, Garvey returned to Jamaica, where he soon gave up his former radicalism and made his peace with the British imperialists. Deserted by the masses, who felt that their leader had 'sold out,' Garvey came to London.

He used to speak in Hyde Park on Sunday afternoons. But during the Abyssinian war he opposed the emperor, Haile Selassie. This made him very unpopular among the African university students, who attempted to break up his meetings.

In recent years, Garvey gave up public speaking due to asthma, but continued to publish a magazine, 'The Blackman,' through which he appealed for funds to reorganize the association. His efforts, however, proved unsuccessful.

He also lost his case before the Privy Council, to recover possession of a $300,000 estate in Belize, British Honduras, left the U.N.I.A. by a wealthy Negro, Isaiah Morton.

Garvey's end was a tragic one.

National Figure
Passed Away
In April
Without Friends