Found 3 collections related to Italo-Ethiopian War%2C 1935-1936

International self-help organization founded in 1914 by Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) in Jamaica. After moving to New York City in 1916, Garvey began to organize divisions of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (U.N.I.A.) throughout the United States. The Central Divison came into being in 1936, the result of the factionalization which developed following Garvey's imprisonment in 1926 and his subsequent deportation. Administrative records of the Central Division, including correspondence, minutes, membership lists, financial records, programs and leaflets, copies of two in-house organs, the CENTRALIST BULLETIN and the HARLEM SENTINEL, scrapbooks, and a subject file. Subject files concern consumer affairs, immigration and naturalization, politics, and welfare cases. Also, material regarding local programs of the division, and extensive news clippings on the Italo-Ethiopian Crisis of 1934-1935. Financial records, correspondence concerning the "Negro World," reports and other items, 1921-1936, from the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (the official name of the U.N.I.A.); and minutes and financial records, 1934-1936, from the New York Division, another faction which arose after 1926. Both the Central Division and New York Division were headed by Captain A. L. King. U.N.I.A. Affiliate Organization File series consists of various records relating to organizations under the umbrella of U.N.I.A. such as the U.N.I.A. City Council (New York), which appears to have been a loose federation of the New York City and Brooklyn Divisions, the Pan-African Community League No. 808, the Garvey Clubs, Inc., and the Brooklyn Divisions which cooperated with the Central Division, the Newark Division, and the City Council in a number of projects. less

Born in Manchester, England, in 1882, Sylvia Pankhurst was the daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst, a champion of woman suffrage who became active in the late 1880s. With her mother and older sister, Christabel, Pankhurst helped found the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903, a political organization dedicated to achieving equality between the sexes, with an emphasis on female enfranchisement. In 1914, Pankhurst was expelled from the WSPU for her insistence on involving working-class women in the suffrage movement; her mother and sister felt that suffrage could best be achieved through the efforts of middle-class women like themselves. From her base in the poor East End of London, Pankhurst ran the East London Federation of the Suffragettes (ELFS) and published a working-class women's paper, the Woman's Dreadnought, which later became Workers' Dreadnought. She became regarded as a leader of working-class men and women and convinced a few labor organizations to oppose the war. In 1935, she campaigned vigorously against the invasion of Ethiopia by Fascist Italy and founded The New Times and Ethiopia News to publicize the plight of the Ethiopians and other victims of fascism. She later helped settle Jewish refugees from Germany. In 1956, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie invited her to live in Ethiopia; she accepted and founded the Ethiopia Observer, which she edited for four years. Pankhurst died on September 27, 1960, and was given a state funeral by the Ethiopian government in recognition of her service to the country. This collection consists of letters between Ethel Wieland Archer, C. W. Martin (Ethiopian Minister), and Sylvia Pankhurst, mostly about donations to the Ethiopian Defense Fund and a publication sponsored by Pankhurst. Also included are several cashed checks from Ethel Wieland Archer and a draft of an article on the war in Ethiopia. less