Question

Discuss the collapse of the universal negro improvement associated,and describe its lasting legency In American culture

Answer 1

Garvey founded the Universal Association for Black Progress (AUPN), a nationalist type organization that preached the cultural, economic, and social development of blacks, which should be governed by a government of their own. The motto “One God! An aspiration! A destiny! ”Clearly demonstrates the religious imprint of its ideology.

His association has grown to thousands of branches in over 40 countries around the world.

Between 1918 and 1933, during his travels in the United States, he founded in Harlem the weekly Negro World, which influenced the black movement of the country, being primordial in the Harlem Renaissance, which was a time of important development of American black culture.