Prologue on Garvey

Authors

  • Robert Hayfron-Benjamin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14426/tbu.v4i2.1616

Keywords:

African-American, Pan-Africanists, National Hero, Labour Government, Universal Negro Improvement Association

Abstract

Background: On 10th November 1964, a British Overseas Airways plane from London carrying a casket draped in a Red, Green and Black flag landed at the airport in Kingston: the casket was accompanied by Mr and Mrs Thomas Watson Harvey and Mrs J Alfred Ferguson, all African-Americans and respectively the President-General and his wife and the special representative of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). 

 

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Published

2023-08-16

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2012): Tinabantu: Journal of African National Affairs

Section

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