Marcus Garvey
...ansport black passenger’s from America to the Caribbean and Africa. Garvey also wanted to black star shipping to serve as a symbol of black grandeur and enterprising. The flagship of the Black Star line was the SS Yarmouth, which made it’s first voyage in November 1920.. Due to contempt crews, expensive repairs, mismanagement and corruption in the higher levels the Black Star shipping was a failure. Before the Black Star shipping went under the UNIA was incorporated under Black Star shipping in 1920. Black Star shipping was a strong recruiting tool for the UNIA in its day. By the 1920’s the UNIA had chapters worldwide, and hosted international world conventions and published the Negro World. The first branch of the UNIA was established in America in 1917, and at one point had chapters on every Caribbean, circum-Carribean, and sub-Saharan African Country. The UNIA paper “Negro World” was read by thousands of followers in the Caribbean and Africa. Before the UNIA papers project was established the only attempt to edit Garveys speeches, and writing was the “Philosophy & opinions of Marcus Garvey” in the 1920’s by his second wife Amy Jacques Garvey . After a few years the UNIA movement began to unravel due to internal dissension, and opposition from black critics, and government harassment. In 1922 the federal government indited Garvey for mail fraud in 1922 due to promotional ads for the Black Star Shipping Line. Garvey was sentenced to prison , but the government later commuted his sentence to deportation back to Jamaica in 1927. Garvey never returned to America. Garvey reconstructed the UNIA and held conventions in Canada, but the movement faltered in America with out Garvey On Marcus Garvey’s final move to London in 1935. After Italy Invaded Ethiopia...