Volume XII of the "Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement
Association Papers" covers a period of twelve months, from the
opening of the UNIA's historic first international convention in
New York, in August 1920, to Marcus Garvey's return to the U.S. in
July 1921 after an extended tour of Cuba, Jamaica, Panama, Costa
Rica, and Belize. In many ways the 1920 convention marked the
high-point of the Garvey movement in the United States, while
Garvey's tour of the Caribbean, in the winter and spring of 1921,
registered the greatest outpouring of popular support for the UNIA
in its history. The period covered in the present volume was the
moment of the movement's political apotheosis, but also the moment
when the finances of Garvey's Black Star Line went into free -fall.
Volume XII highlights the centrality of Caribbean people not only
to the convention, but also to the movement. The reports to the
convention discussed the range of social and economic conditions
obtaining in the Caribbean, particularly their impact on racial
conditions. The quality of the discussions and debates were
impressive. Contained in these reports are some of the earliest and
most clearly enunciated statements in defense of social and
political freedom in the Caribbean. These documents form an
underappreciated and still underutilized record of the political
awakening of Caribbean people of African descent.
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