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(GARVEY, MARCUS.) HARRIS, ROBERT & VERNON T. MILLER.
Black
Glory in Retrospect.
Copious illustrations. 36 photo-offset printed pages (including the
covers). 4to, original stiff paper wrappers, stapled; some even discoloration at the cover edges.
NewYork: Black Glory Publishing Co, 1960s
[350/500]
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION
,
AND THE FIRST COPY WE HAVE SEEN
.
“Volume 1, First in
Series” on the front cover, however, no further volumes were issued. A curious publication,
reminiscent of Joel Augustus Rogers’ race pride publications of the 1930s and ‘40s, but
considerably more radical.A number of pages are devoted to Marcus Garvey and the pan-African
movement in general. OCLC locates one copy only. “Very much of the history of the black race
has been hidden, destroyed and falsified. Here is a general history presented to tell black people
the truth about themselves.” Robert Harris andVernonT Miller, from the Introduction.
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(GARVEY, MARCUS.)
Black Fundamentalism.
Broadside, 14x8-1/2 inches,
printed on stiff parchment-like tan paper with an image of Marcus Garvey at the top; one
tiny pinhole at the top where possibly hung.
Np, 1960s-1970s
[300/400]
The sub-title of this broadside reads: “A Racial Hierarchy and Empire for Negroes. Negro’s Faith
must be Confidence in Self.His Creed:One God,OneAim,One Destiny” (The U.N.I.A. creed).
We were unable to find a single copy of this piece anywhere. It is obviously made up from quotes
from Garvey’s writings, and we are guessing that it was produced during the period of the 1960’s
or ‘70’s.The creed begins “The time has come for the Negro to forget and cast behind him his hero
worship and adoration of other races, and to start out immediately to create and emulate heroes of his
own.” Subsequent paragraphs are titled “A Peep at the Past,” “Why be Discouraged,” “Nothing
must Kill the Empire Urge,” “Allegiance to Self First,” and “We areArbiters of our own Destiny.”
ORIGINAL ARTWORK FORTHE LIFE OF GARVEY
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(GARVEY, MARCUS.) MORRIS, LEONARD FRANKLIN.
Seventeen
watercolor studies and four preliminary pencil sketches for larger works,
together with an exhibit catalog, a photograph of the artist and the artist’s book
on Garvey, “Questions and Answers—The Life of Marcus Mosiah Garvey.”
Illustrated with some of the paintings made from the watercolor sketches offered here.
The watercolors are on watercolor paper, heavy wove paper and thinner dark paper,
averaging image size from 5 x 6 inches to 12 x 17 inches; actual paper size is, larger with
wide margins and captions.
SHOULD BE SEEN
.
Vp, 1960s-1970s
[2,000/3,000]
Leonard Franklin Morris (1933—) wrote the following in the Introduction to his book,
“Questions and Answers. . .” “My work takes shape around the images and ideas that focus
on the Black Experience.That is why I painted the Marcus Garvey series, to symbolize the vast
contributions that one man made to the race to keep his dream alive.” Morris, watercolor sketches
show Garvey in a parade down Harlem’s Lenox Avenue in his iconic uniform, seated in the
office of “The Negro World,” speaking at a Harlem rally, the “Youth Contingent” of the
U.N.I.A. marching in Harlem, and an image of the “S.S.Yarmouth,” re-christened the
“Frederick Douglass,” flagship of the Black Star Line. Sadly, it was the plan to purchase a
second ship for the Black Star Line that was Garvey’s undoing.A mailing, soliciting funds for
that purpose, showed a ship bearing the name “PhillisWheatley.” Because technically the Line
did not as yet own the ship, F.B.I, director J. Edgar Hoover had Garvey arrested for mail fraud.
One of the watercolors shows Garvey’s arrest, and another his trial, and yet another shows him
suffering a heart attack. Finally, a pencil study shows Garvey surrounded by the faithful, on
his death bed, in 1940. Morris’s book, “Questions and Answers. . .” (First Books, 2003)
contains a brief piece by Amy Jacques Garvey on Garvey in Jamaica, as well as poetry by
Morris and others, and forty full-page illustrations of the oil paintings created from many of the
sketches offered here. In all, Morris created 80 images chronicling the life of Marcus Garvey.
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