194 / 326
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GARVEY, MARCUS.
5 stock
certificates for shares in several of
Marcus Garvey’s businesses.
3 cer-
tificates for the Black Star Line,
ONE OF
WHICH IS SIGNED BY GARVEY
; a rare cer-
tificate for the Negro Factories Corporation
SIGNED BY GARVEY
, and a certificate for the
Parent Body of Universal Negro Improvement
Association Construction Loans. Standard
stock certificate size,
SOME CHIPS AND
TEARS
;
CONDITION VARIES
,
SHOULD BE
SEEN
.
New York, 1920-1921
[1,500/2,500]
A GROUP OF SCARCE STOCK CERTIFICATES FOR BUSINESSES ESTABLISHED BY MARCUS GAR
-
VEY
.
The Negro Factories Corporation is rare, as is the Parent Body of Universal Improvement
Association certificate. All five were issued between 1920 and 1921, before Garvey began to have
problems with the Government. From the beginning, Garvey caught the attention of the Bureau of
Investigation, later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation. When the young J. Edgar Hoover
took command of the Bureau in 1923-24, he made Garvey his mission. Hoover looked everywhere,
paying off noted Negroes like musical director Noble Sissle and others to spy on Garvey and the
U.N.I.A. Finally, a fluke; a piece of fundraising material for a second ship for the Black Star Line
was found to be technically mail fraud because the name on the ship that the Line did not as yet own
(Phillis Wheatley), appeared in the Association’s mailings. This toppled Garvey and with him the
entire movement.
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GARVEY, MARCUS.
The
Univer sa l Neg ro Improvement
Association Almanac. 1922.
Twelve
small folio leaves, string-bound at the top,
printed within decorative red and black
borders; pictorial stiff pale green covers
with an Egyptian styled center logo, with
the legend “One God, One Aim, One
Destiny. Africa for the Africans.” The last
leaf, has come loose from the string bind-
ing, otherwise in remarkably good
condition.
New York: U.N.I.A. Offices, 1922
[1,000/1,500]
A RARE AND UNUSUAL PIECE OF U
.
N
.
I
.
A
.
MEMORABILIA
,
each page with a calendar at
the center, surrounded by photographic portrait
vignettes of important figures in the movement
as well as important figures in the pan-African
movement. This “almanac,” prints an unusual
variety of things; an essay by Edward Wilmot
Blyden, a report on the Second International
Negro Convention, the number of lynchings
for the year and previous years, a poem by Phillis Wheatley, information on Liberia, a list of publica-
tions available to members and much more. We could find no mention of this almanac anywhere. Not
in the papers of UNIA edited by Robert Hill.