Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey [Volumes I & II in One Volume]

Wisdom and Inspiration from the Great Pan-African Leader and ThinkerIn the long road African-Americans have tread-and are still walking-from emancipation toward the complete realization of true racial equality, Marcus Garvey stands out in his early and unequivocal declaration of black rights and pride. In the early 1900s he offered a novel approach: full separation and independence from whites, economically and socially. Although a polarizing figure for his sometimes violent and controversial anti-Semitic views and actions, and his relationship with the Ku Klux Klan, his influence for promoting a sense of pride and identity for Africans and the African diaspora spread long and deep-as did his complete and eloquent rejection of white supremacy and its standards. Ta-Nehisi Coates called Garvey the "patron saint" of the Black Nationalist movement, and Martin Luther King Jr. said Garvey was "the first man on a mass scale and level to give millions of Negroes a sense of dignity and destiny.