About Marcus Garvey
- "Marcus Garvey was the first man of color in the history of the United States to lead and develop a mass movement. He was the first man, on a mass scale, and level, to give millions of Negroes a sense of dignity and destiny, and make the Negro feel that he was somebody." – Martin Luther King[1]
References
- ↑ “In Jamaica in 1965, King spoke at Garvey’s shrine and acknowledged the UNIA leader’s vast influence: ‘‘Marcus Garvey was the first man of color in the history of the United States to lead and develop a mass movement. . . . He was the first man on a mass scale and level to give millions of Negroes a sense of dignity and destiny, and make the Negro feel he is somebody.’’”
Mary G. Rolinson (2007). Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927 (p. 190). The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807830925 [LG]