Marcus Garvey tapped into the frustration of the African Americans who supported the United States in World War I by working in war industries or fighting in the war itself, but found themselves discriminated against once the war was over. Listen to this speech by Garvey who encouraged African Americans to go to Africa to establish their own country. [3:33 min.]

Concepts

marcus garvey

Show More Show Less

Additional Tags

racial antagonism, racial separatism, african american politics in the 1920s, universal negro improvement association, back to africa movement

Show More Show Less

Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

• This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information