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Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
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GARVEY, Marcus (1887-1940). Typed letter signed (“Marcus Garvey”), as President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, to Edna Green. West Kensington, London, 4 August 1936. 1 page, 8vo, on Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities’ League letterhead, light creasing.
“We have to thank you very much for the good work you have done in securing the names and addresses of so many persons who are willing to work for the salvation of our Race. We have made a record of the names in conjunction with those from other parts of the world.”
Written in the final phase of Garvey’s life when he had moved the headquarters of the UNIA from Jamaica to West Kensington. At the UNIA Convention of 1934, he proposed the Five-Year Plan which proposed that every African voluntarily send monetary contributions in order to revitalize the organization and achieve their aims. Garvey concludes his correspondence to Miss Grear, “We will be releasing to each and every promised worker a programme of the Five Year Plan, for all of them to work and make a success of it. You will hear from us on the matter in time.”