“You’re Black Just Like Me” Marcus Garvey and the Struggle

for Racial RedemptionBy: Davonte Logan

UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Summer Humanities Institute

A quote from Garvey “As the social relations

between black and white are impossible, and as the whites are too prejudiced against the black to treat him as an equal either socially, politically, or industrially, therefore the black man’s only hope of redemption is the creation of a distinct type of civilization in his motherland.”-Garvey, Marcus Mosiah, and Robert A. Hill. The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers. Berkeley (Calif.): University of California press, 2006. Print.

Garvey’s Early Childhood

Leader at an early age Childhood friends were white He made no distinction between white and black Exposed to Jamaica's social hierarchy

Born: August 17, 1887 Location: St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica Died: June 10, 1940

Jamaican Society Society structured from a caste

system Whites-dominant class Mulattos-middle class Blacks-lower class, considered

inferior

Name Description

Negro Negro and Negro produce an offspring

Mulatto White and Negro produce an offspring

Sambo Mulatto and Negro produce an

offspring

Quadroon White and Mulatto produce an

offspring

Mustee White and Quadroon produce an

offspring

Mustifino White and Mustee produce an

offspring

Quintroon White and Mustifino produce an

offspring

Octoroon White and Quintroon produce an

offspring

Whites, Mulattos, and Blacks

“I had to decide whether to please my friends and be one of the “black-whites” of Jamaica, and be reasonably prosperous, or come out openly and defend and help improve and protect the integrity of the black millions and suffer. I decided to do the latter.”

-Grant, Colin. Negro with a hat: the rise and fall of Marcus Garvey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Print

Edward Wilmot Blyden Born: August 3, 1832 Location: Saint

Thomas, Danish West Indies (now the US Virgin Islands)

“New World Negro”

Booker T. Washington Born: April 5, 1856

Hale’s Ford, Virginia Died: November 14,

1915Tuskegee, Alabama

Used education to liberate the Black race

Bishop Henry McNeal Turner

Born: February 1, 1834

Location: Newberry, South Carolina

Died: Windsor, Ontario, 1915

Status of free black men should be the same as white men.

One-Drop Rule Established in the United States Adopted as a law in the early 20th century One drop of black blood, you were considered black

Marcus Garvey Vs. W.E.B Du Bois

Marcus Garvey Vs. Du Bois

Marcus Garvey Repatriation back to

Africa Blacks stay separate

from whites Sensitive to the

“blackness” of his skin color

Du Bois Migration back to

Africa was absurd Lower class blacks

need to become more educated

Colorism does not exist

UNIA Vs. NAACP Universal Negro Improvement

Association National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Conclusion People of mixed race should not be excluded Include all Shades of color in the Diaspora Future research on the issue of colorism

Acknowledgements Dr. Paul Von Blum Dr. Keidra Morris Dr. Godfrey Vincent Samantha Sheppard, Ph.D. (c) SHI Colleagues, Faculty, and Staff Tuskegee University

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