Impact Of The NAACP, The UNIA, And Marcus Garvey

The NAACP, the UNIA, and Marcus Garvey all had a very powerful impact on fighting racism; these things all had an impact because people were involved and were willing to fight for their rights. Marcus Garvey's main objective was to improve black lives everywhere. The NAACP started off in the early 1900’s, and it’s proven that racism was still continuing years later. The NAACP was started in 1909 and is one of the earliest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States. The NAACP focuses on legal strategies that are made to confront any of the civil rights issues in our country. Marcus The NAACP focuses on legal strategies that are made to confront any of the civil rights issues in our country in 1914 in Jamaica. His
He became an inspirational figure for later civil rights activists (BBC). After leaving Jamaica at the age of 14, he returned in 1914 and founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Two years later, he moved to Harlem in New York, where UNIA had excel greatly. He was then a public speaker across the United States. Marcus Garvey preached an independent black economy within the framework of white capitalism. He also preached on how that people should be proud of their race, and go back to where their ancestors came from, Africa. Back in Jamaica, Garvey reconstituted the UNIA and held conventions there and in Canada, but the heart of his movement stumbled on in the United States without him. While dabbling in Jamaican politics, he remained a keen observer of world events, writing voluminously in a series of his own periodicals. His final move was to London, where he settled in 1935. In his last years he slid into isolation, suffering the final indignity of reading his own obituaries a month before his death on June 10, 1940 ( "The Negro Moses”). He then became a national hero to all African
The UNIA 1929 headed by Garvey continued operating in Jamaica until he moved to England in 1935. There he set up office for the parent body of the UNIA 1929 and maintained contact with all of its divisions. Sessions had been highlighted by the introduction of the African philosophy conducted by Marcus Garvey. His leadership had been cut short and he was also then convicted of fraud. In the year of 1927, President Coolidge sent Garvey away as an “undesirable alien”. After all this, it was the end of the UNIA and never transported anyone to Africa. After Garvey was done, the UNIA continued to operate out of New York until around