Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 325

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(GARVEY, MARCUS & THE U.N. I. A.) [TAKIS, ASHIMA.] Stop! Look! and Listen! There will be a Meeting of the "Afro-Pacific Movement of the World." Small letterpress broadside, 9x6 inches; creases where folded, some toning. [Philadelphia, 1934]
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A rare survival from an unusual Japanese-American, "Nisei" group. The PMEW (Pacific Movement of the Eastern World), was founded in Chicago in 1932 by Satokata Takahashiin, and led by Ashima Takis in Chicago. The PMEW sought to unite all non-white people of the world under the leadership of the Empire of Japan. Amazingly enough, Takis was able to make contact and associate himself with Burt Cornish and Walter Lee Peeples of the U.N.I.A. Together they began recruiting blacks and charging dues. In June of 1932, M.L.T. De Mena, Officer in Charge of the American Field for the U.N.I.A. wrote a warning letter to members regarding Takis and the PMEW, stating that the group had no official ties to the U.N.I.A. and had no approval from Garvey or himself. Garvey was in England and De Mena was in Jamaica, and there were many who sought to take advantage of the void of leadership. A full-page facsimile of a PMEW membership certificate appears on page 717 of Volume VII of Robert Hill's Marcus Garvey and the U.N.I.A. Papers, as it was a piece of evidence in a 1943 trial in Chicago's Circuit Court.