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Marcus Garvey at a session of the Universal Negro Improvement Association

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Black nationalism

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Written by J.E. Luebering

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Last Updated: Mar 21, 2024 • Article History

Marcus Garvey at a session of the Universal Negro Improvement Association

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Category: History & Society

Date:: 1960 - 1975

Context:: Universal Negro Improvement Association

Key People:: Stokely Carmichael; Martin Delany; Louis Farrakhan; Marcus Garvey; Malcolm X

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Black nationalism, political and social movement prominent in the 1960s and early ’70s in the United States that gained popularity among Black Americans. The movement sought to acquire economic power and to infuse among Black people a sense of community and group feeling. The roots of Black nationalism can be traced to Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association of the 1920s. Many adherents to Black nationalism assumed the eventual creation of a separate Black nation. As an alternative to being assimilated by a predominantly white America, Black nationalists sought to maintain and promote their separate identity as a people of ...(100 of 151 words)

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