Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 303

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
ON THE OCCASION OF HIS PASSING GARVEY, MARCUS. Marcus Mosiah Garvey Founder & 1st President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association & African Communities League, August 17, 1887-June 10, 1940. Black and white poster printed on cardboard, 22x14 inches, some creases and abrasion to upper left center; some scratches. [London], 1940
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After his arrest and indictment for mail fraud in 1922, Marcus Garvey went through a series of appeals and stays, but was eventually convicted and began to serve his five year term in a federal prison in Atlanta in 1925. Garvey's sentence was commuted by Calvin Coolidge in 1927 and the U.N. I.A. leader was released and deported to Jamaica, the country of his birth. He presided over U.N.I.A. conventions in Kingston and Toronto in the late 1930s, but the steam had gone out of the movement, partially because of Garvey's conviction, and very much because of his association prior to his arrest with members of the Ku Klux Klan. Many African Americans were deeply offended and became disenchanted with the movement. In 1935, Garvey moved to London where he presided over a tiny fraction of the powerful movement he once commanded. He died of a massive stroke in 1940.