In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black
Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their
support for emigration to West Africa. In 1937, Celia Jane Allen
traveled to Jim Crow Mississippi to organize rural black workers
around black nationalist causes. In the late 1940s, from her home
in Kingston, Jamaica, Amy Jacques Garvey launched an extensive
letter-writing campaign to defend the Greater Liberia Bill, which
would relocate 13 million black Americans to West Africa. Gordon,
Allen, and Jacques Garvey-as well as Maymie De Mena, Ethel Collins,
Amy Ashwood, and Ethel Waddell-are part of an overlooked and
understudied group of black women who take center stage in Set the
World on Fire, the first book to examine how black nationalist
women engaged in national and global politics from the early
twentieth century to the 1960s. Historians of the era generally
portray the period between the Garvey movement of the 1920s and the
Black Power movement of the 1960s as one of declining black
nationalist activism, but Keisha N. Blain reframes the Great
Depression, World War II, and the early Cold War as significant
eras of black nationalist-and particularly, black nationalist
women's-ferment. In Chicago, Harlem, and the Mississippi Delta,
from Britain to Jamaica, these women built alliances with people of
color around the globe, agitating for the rights and liberation of
black people in the United States and across the African diaspora.
As pragmatic activists, they employed multiple protest strategies
and tactics, combined numerous religious and political ideologies,
and forged unlikely alliances in their struggles for freedom.
Drawing on a variety of previously untapped sources, including
newspapers, government records, songs, and poetry, Set the World on
Fire highlights the flexibility, adaptability, and experimentation
of black women leaders who demanded equal recognition and
participation in global civil society.
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