Curated OER
History Matters: Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World
Find a listing of the principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association which laid out the rights of the "Negro Peoples of the World."
Curated OER
History Matters: Du Bois on Garvey
The full title of this article by W.E.B. DuBois is "The Collapse of the Only Thing in the Garvey Movement Which Was Original or Promising." DuBois wrote in detail about the collapse of the Black Star Line, Garvey's steamship line which...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Marcus Garvey
[Free Registration/Login Required] Upon review of primary resources provided in this lesson, learners will determine what made Marcus Garvey, leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, such a controversial public figure.
University of California
Ucla African Studies Center: Marcus Garvey: An Overview
This detailed biography of Marcus Garvey, advocate of the back-to-Africa movement as a push-back to the way African Americans were being treated after World War I, gives good insight into his life and philosophy. Find information on his...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Religion in u.s. History: Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement
The National Humanities Center details how Marcus Garvey implemented the largest mass movement in African-American history when he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Very interesting and informative with pictures and...
Columbia University
Maap: Marcus Garvey
A brief description of the ideas of Marcus Garvey along with links to videos of historians speaking about his legacy and documents pertaining to his Universal Negro Improvement Association.
Library of Congress
Loc: African American Mosaic: Black History and Culture
Online version of a Library of Congress exhibit, covering information about black history, including colonization, abolition, migrations, and the WPA. It is multimedia and contains hundreds of primary source documents.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: The American Negro and His Fatherland
Read excerpts from this speech given by Re.v. Henry McNeal Turner, a bishop in the AME church, who, by the late 1890s, supported the Back to Africa movement and felt that African Americans would have a better life in Africa.
BBC
Bbc: Historic Figures: Marcus Garvey (1887 1940)
Brief biographical resource on Marcus Garvey, the creator of the "Back to Africa" movement in the United States. Archived.