Through her editorship of the magazine, UM
drew attention to issues such as single motherhood, women struggling on meagre incomes, and unemployment among domestic workers. This is the age of woman: what man has done...
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10 June 1940: Marcus Garvey, Jamaican-born black internationalist...
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10 June 1940
Marcus Garvey
, Jamaican-born black internationalist politician, died in obscurity at West Kensington in London. His Universal Negro Improvement Association
or UNIA, founded in 1914, had collapsed during the 1920s.
“Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)”. The Afrocentric Experience.
