HIS WORDS - HIS VOICE
AUDIO ABOVE FROM 1921 by Marcus Garvey
"Explanation of the Objects of the Universal Negro Improvement Association" is a studio recording made by African-American leader Marcus Garvey in New York in July 1921, and adapted from his longer speech "A Membership Appeal from Marcus Garvey to the Negro Citizens of New York"
"The Negro's Greatest Enemy," published in Current History (September 1923), was Marcus Garvey's most extensive autobiographical statement, and the first to be written for the American public. It was written during his incarceration in the Tombs Prison in New York City.
This article, which is largely a chapter of autobiography, was written by the author-the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
I WAS born in the Island of Jamaica, British West Indies, on Aug. 17,1887. My parents were black Negroes My father was a man of brilliant intellect and dashing courage. He was unafraid of consequences. He took human chances in the course of life, as most bold men do, and he failed at the close of his career. He once had a fortune; he died poor. My mother was a sober and conscientious Christian,too soft and good for the time in which she lived. She was the direct opposite of my father. He was severe, firm, determined, bold and strong,refusing to yield even to superior forces if he believed he was right. My mother, on the other hand, was always willing to return a smile for a blow, and ever ready to bestow charity upon her enemy. Of this strange combination I was born thirty-six years ago, and ushered into a world of sin, the flesh and the devil.
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This article, which is largely a chapter of autobiography, was written by the author-the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
I WAS born in the Island of Jamaica, British West Indies, on Aug. 17,1887. My parents were black Negroes My father was a man of brilliant intellect and dashing courage. He was unafraid of consequences. He took human chances in the course of life, as most bold men do, and he failed at the close of his career. He once had a fortune; he died poor. My mother was a sober and conscientious Christian,too soft and good for the time in which she lived. She was the direct opposite of my father. He was severe, firm, determined, bold and strong,refusing to yield even to superior forces if he believed he was right. My mother, on the other hand, was always willing to return a smile for a blow, and ever ready to bestow charity upon her enemy. Of this strange combination I was born thirty-six years ago, and ushered into a world of sin, the flesh and the devil.
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