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Linking Up the Golden Gate: Garveyism in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1919-1925

Ohio University

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	Abstract

This article considers the Garvey Movement in relation to the San Francisco Bay area after World War I. To understand the impact of Garveyism on the West Coast, the development of a Black urban working-class in the 1920s proves to be an excellent case study. African American railroad workers synthesized a Black labor tradition to a rapidly growing social and political movement in the form of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Following the Metal Trades Strike in 1919, Black working-class organizations continued to adapt Garveyism’s approach to economic independence, anticolonialism worldwide, and Black journalism as an organizing tool to sharpen their antiracist campaigns in California.

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