Research Catalog

Title

Universal Negro Improvement Association. Central Division, New York. Records, 1918-1959.

Author

Universal Negro Improvement Association. Central Division (New York, N.Y.)

Supplementary Content

Finding Aid

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

• 8 lin. ft.
• 6 microfilm reels.

Summary

Administrative records of the Central Division, including correspondence, minutes, membership lists, financial records, programs and leaflets, copies of two in-house organs, the CENTRALIST BULLETIN and the HARLEM SENTINEL, scrapbooks, and a subject file. Subject files concern consumer affairs, immigration and naturalization, politics, and welfare cases. Also, material regarding local programs of the division, and extensive news clippings on the Italo-Ethiopian Crisis of 1934-1935. Financial records, correspondence concerning the "Negro World," reports and other items, 1921-1936, from the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (the official name of the U.N.I.A.); and minutes and financial records, 1934-1936, from the New York Division, another faction which arose after 1926. Both the Central Division and New York Division were headed by Captain A. L. King. U.N.I.A. Affiliate Organization File series consists of various records relating to organizations under the umbrella of U.N.I.A. such as the U.N.I.A. City Council (New York), which appears to have been a loose federation of the New York City and Brooklyn Divisions, the Pan-African Community League No. 808, the Garvey Clubs, Inc., and the Brooklyn Divisions which cooperated with the Central Division, the Newark Division, and the City Council in a number of projects.

Subjects

• Scrapbooks
• Clubs > New York (State) > New York
• King, A. L
• Back to Africa movement
• African Americans > Colonization > Africa
• Black nationalism > United States
• Naturalization > United States
• Pan-African Community League No. 808
• United States > Politics and government > 20th century
• United States > Emigration and immigration
• Universal Negro Improvement Association > Brooklyn Division
• Garvey Clubs
• Universal Negro Improvement Association > Newark Division
• Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936
• Blacks > Societies, etc
• Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940
• New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions
• Consumer protection > New York (State) > New York
• Universal Negro Improvement Association > New York Division
• African Americans > Charities
• Public welfare > New York (State) > New York
• Associations, institutions, etc > African American membership
• African Americans > Societies, etc
• Universal Negro Improvement Association > City Council (New York, N.Y.)

Genre/Form

Scrapbooks.

Note

• Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.

Access (note)

• Researchers restricted to microfilm copy.

Additional Formats (note)

• Collection available on microfilm;
• *ZZ-7229 Master negative (of Micro R 1571).

Reproduction (note)

• Microfilm.

Source (note)

• The Community Thing

Biography (note)

• International self-help organization founded in 1914 by Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) in Jamaica. After moving to New York City in 1916, Garvey began to organize divisions of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (U.N.I.A.) throughout the United States. The Central Divison came into being in 1936, the result of the factionalization which developed following Garvey's imprisonment in 1926 and his subsequent deportation.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• "Manuscript Collections from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: Guide to the Scholarly Resources Microfilm Edition." Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1995. Sc F 95-442.

Processing Action (note)

• Surveyed
• Processed
• Cataloging updated

Call Number

Sc Micro R-1571

OCLC

NYPW89-A217

Author

Universal Negro Improvement Association. Central Division (New York, N.Y.)

Title

Universal Negro Improvement Association. Central Division, New York. Records, 1918-1959.

Access

Researchers restricted to microfilm copy.

Additional Formats

Collection available on microfilm; Scholarly Resources, Inc.; call number Sc Micro R-1571.

*ZZ-7229 Master negative (of Micro R 1571).

Reproduction

Microfilm. New York, N.Y. : New York Public Library, marketed by Scholarly Resources Inc., 19--. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (MN *ZZ-7229)

Microfilm. New York : New York Public Library. [19--]. 6 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. (MN *ZZ-8243)

Biography

International self-help organization founded in 1914 by Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) in Jamaica. After moving to New York City in 1916, Garvey began to organize divisions of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (U.N.I.A.) throughout the United States. The Central Divison came into being in 1936, the result of the factionalization which developed following Garvey's imprisonment in 1926 and his subsequent deportation.

Indexes

"Manuscript Collections from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: Guide to the Scholarly Resources Microfilm Edition." Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1995. Sc F 95-442.

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Finding Aid

Research Call Number

Sc Micro R-1571