Grassroots Garveyism: the Universal Negro Improvement Association in the rural South, 1920-1927 (1st edition.)

The black separatist movement led by Marcus Garvey has long been viewed as a phenomenon of African American organisation in the urban North.

But as this book demonstrates, the largest number of Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) divisions and Garvey's most devoted and loyal followers were found in the southern Black Belt.

Tracing the path of organisers from northern cities to Virginia, and then from the Upper to the Deep South, the book remaps the movement to include this vital but overlooked region.