The Black Star Line and Marcus Garvey

gafinfan · May 31, 2010

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/dumas/garveyblackstar.htm

Garvey, called a "black Moses" during his lifetime, created the largest African American organization, with hundreds of chapters across the world at its height. While Garvey is predominantly remembered as a back-to-Africa proponent, it is clear that the scope of his ideas and the UNIA’s actions go beyond that characterization .
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Garvey is now best remembered as a champion of the back-to-Africa
movement. In his own time he was hailed as a redeemer, a "Black Moses." Though he failed to realize all his objectives, his
movement still represents a liberation from the psychological bondage of racial inferiority.
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In 1922 the federal government indicted Garvey on mail fraud charges stemming from Black Star Line
promotional claims and he suspended all BSL operations. (Two years later, the UNIA created another line, the Black Cross
Navigation and Trading Co., but it, too, failed.) Garvey was sentenced to prison. The government later commuted his sentence,
only to deport him back to Jamaica in November 1927. He never returned to America.
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J Edger Hoover is the name that pops up when you research the Mail fraud charge, Interesting, to say the least.

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