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- Marcus Mosiah Garvey, one of the greatest leaders African people have produced, was born August 17, 1887 in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica, and spent his entire life in the service of his people--African people. He was bold; he was uncompromising and he was one of the most powerful orators on record. He could literally bring his audiences to a state of mass hysteria. Garvey emphasized racial pride. His goal was nothing less that the total and complete redemption and liberation of African people around the planet. His dream was the galvanization of Black people into an unrelenting steamroller that could never be defeated. I consider myself, along with many others, as one of Garvey's children.
As a young man of fourteen, Garvey left school and worked as a printer's apprentice. He participated in Jamaica's earliest nationalist organizations, traveled throughout Central America, and spent time in London, England, where he worked with the Sudanese-Egyptian nationalist Duse Mohamed Ali. In 1916 Garvey was invited by Booker T. Washington to come to the United States in the hopes of establishing an industrial training school, but arrived just after Washington died. In March 1916, shortly after landing in America, Garvey embarked upon an extended period of travel. When he finally settled down, he organized a chapter of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. The UNIA & ACL had been formed in Jamaica in 1914. Its motto was "One God, One Aim, One Destiny," and pledged itself to the redemption of Africa and the uplift of Black people everywhere. It aimed at race pride, self-reliance and economic independence.
Within a few years Garvey had become the best-known and most dynamic African leader in the Western Hemisphere and perhaps the entire world. In 1919 Mr. Garvey created an international shipping company called the Black Star Line. By 1920 the UNIA had hundreds of divisions. It hosted elaborate international conventions and published a weekly newspaper entitled the Negro World.
No other organization in modern times has had the prestige and the impact as the UNIA & ACL. During the 1920s UNIA divisions existed throughout North, South and Central America, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and Australia.
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Zekita
Grace Rollins is owner and creator of Little Pan-African Cloth Peoples- handmade African-American dolls
(LittlePan-AfricanClothPeoples.
blogspot.com)
for our children (and us big children too!!)
These dolls are made with the mind set of the telling our ancestors' story of a simpler time in addition enduring more difficult circumstances. The customs, stories and traditions conveyed through the dolls in a simple, elegant, natural radience is a refreshing change from today's standards and sharply contrasts the medias perception of what African-Americans should look like.
**Standard Dolls- $40.00
**Deluxe dolls-
Country Diva Collection- $70.00
Sunday Best Collection- $70.00
Let me know the following!
* Please choose from three different shades of delicious, snuggly choices; Cinnamon (light), Coco (medium) and Chocolate (dark).
* Please choose Male or Female!
* **For Standard doll(s) only** Please choose between three different hair styles; Afro, Cornrows or Locs. They can even be bald if you so desire!
* Please choose Color of hair in black (standard), brown, auburn, gray or, salt & pepper.
* Please choose clothing color(s).
Send your order request to with the above information to:
Visit my world..........
Yarn into cloth. Cloth into dolls. Pan-African Dolls.littlepan-africanclothpeoples.blogspot.com
Watching. Eating. Preserving. Growing. Being. The Blogletter. mangobuttahqueen
.blogspot.com
I love animals
With potatoes
And brown gravy.
http://littlepan-africanclothpeoples. blogspot.com/
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