Found 2 collections related to Blacks -- Societies, etc

The Universal Negro Improvement Association was an international self-help organization founded in 1914 by Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) in Jamaica. The Universal Negro Improvement Association - Philadelphia Division Records consist of one ledger, only partially filled in, containing membership lists, and a number of entries relating to embezzlement charges leveled against the President of the division, Fred A. Toote. There are two folders of letters, 1919-1920, containing 3 authorgraph letters signed from Hubert H. Harrison to Joseph St. Prix (who appears to have been the owner of this collection), one letter from Henry Dolphin to Anderson Joseph, St. Prix's partner in a shoe repair business, and the rest relate to UNIA business matters. Additionally, there are several flyers for a parade given by the Universal African Legion, 1920 in Camden New Jersey and for a UNIA mass meeting. less

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