Table of Contents:
  • Pan-Africanism before Garvey
  • In search of a career open to talent: the early life of Marcus Garvey
  • Garvey and the politics of agitation
  • The Black Star Line: business as Pan-African politics
  • Black ships, black workers: a sea of troubles
  • Garveyism in Africa: improving Liberia
  • The twenties: political poverty and economic progress
  • The UNIA goes south: Garvey and the Ku Klux Klan
  • Violence as racial politics: the murder of James Eason
  • The politics of fraud: J. Edgar Hoover versus Marcus Garvey
  • Africa again: Garvey, Liberia, and the Firestone Rubber Company
  • Ethnic politics as Pan-Africanism: the locals of the UNIA
  • Garvey and Pan-Africanism: the last years.