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Garvey Club collection
- Title
- Garvey Club collection, 1927-1948.
- Author
- Harris, Gershom E.
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 1 (Garvey Club) | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 442 Box 1 (Garvey Club) | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
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- Description
- 1 folder (26 items).
- Summary
- This collection contains letters, certificate of incorporation, dues cards, song lyrics, a contract and clippings. Letters from Marcus and Amy Jacques Garvey, UNIA and Garvey Club officers H. Holmes, B.J. Spencer Pitt, Cleophas T. Jacobs, James R. Stewart and Samuel A. Haynes to Harris concern the on-going development of both the Garvey Club and the UNIA.
- Subjects
- Universal Negro Improvement Association > New York Division
- Club > New York (State) > New York
- Harris, Gershom E
- Garvey, Marcus 1887-1940
- African Americans > Societies, etc
- Back to Africa movement
- Garvey, Amy Jacques
- The Garvey Club, Inc
- Universal Negro Improvement Association History > Sources
- Black nationalism > United States
- Note
- Forms part of Universal Negro Improvement Association Miscellaneous Collections.
- Source (note)
- Walton, Brenda
- Biography (note)
- Greshom E. Harris was president of the Garvey Club during the 1940s. Marcus Garvey, who also established the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), founded the Garvey Club, Inc., or New York Garvey Club. The Garvey Club was the parent organization of the UNIA Central Division in New York City, which split ranks with the Garvey Club around 1927 because of conflicts among the leadership. By 1929, the Garvey Club became officially affiliated with Garvey's Jamaica-based UNIA and African Communities League, and boasted a membership of 600.
- Processing Action (note)
- Accessioned.
- Cataloged.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 442
- OCLC
- NYPW98-A433
- Author
- Harris, Gershom E.
- Title
- Garvey Club collection, 1927-1948.
- Biography
- Greshom E. Harris was president of the Garvey Club during the 1940s. Marcus Garvey, who also established the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), founded the Garvey Club, Inc., or New York Garvey Club. The Garvey Club was the parent organization of the UNIA Central Division in New York City, which split ranks with the Garvey Club around 1927 because of conflicts among the leadership. By 1929, the Garvey Club became officially affiliated with Garvey's Jamaica-based UNIA and African Communities League, and boasted a membership of 600.Garvey Club divisions were formed in other states including New Jersey, Illinois, Louisiana, Ohio and Mississippi. Members of the original Garvey Club maintained close ties with both Marcus Garvey and his wife Amy Jacques Garvey. The Garvey Club was instrumental in organizing a memorial for Garvey after his death in 1940, as well as reorganizing the central administration of the UNIA in the months after his demise.
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- Added Author
- Harris, Gershom E.Garvey, Marcus 1887-1940.Garvey, Amy Jacques.Jacobs, Cleophas T.Pitt, B.J. Spencer.Haynes, Samuel A.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 442