AFAM 162: African American History: From Emancipation to the Present
Lecture 09 - The New Negroes. In this lecture, Professor Holloway discusses the New Negro mentality, a new black consciousness forged out of political and economic frustration and the cultural shocks of the Great Migration. The New Negro ideology was articulated
on a wide scale after World War I, when the promises of democracy at home went unfulfilled. Marcus Garvey best articulated this new consciousness through his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), the first organized grassroots mass protest movement in African American history.
Garvey advocated black pride and autonomy, worked to build a great steam line so blacks could partake in nation-building, and helped dispirited blacks dream of an eventual return to Africa. Garvey's ability to realize his dreams was limited by his own organizational ineptitude and
by the federal government's systematic attempts to infiltrate and then destroy the UNIA. The lecture ends with an examination of Garvey's relationships to other black leaders, including Father Divine and his Peace Mission Movement.
(from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 09 - The New Negroes |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. Introduction: The New Negro |
| [00:05:42] | 2. J. Edgar Hoover |
| [00:08:34] | 3. Marcus Garvey and J. Edgar Hoover |
| [00:26:32] | 4. Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du Bois and A. Philip Randolph |
| [00:36:22] | 5. Marcus Garvey and Father Divine |
| References |
| Lecture 9 - The New Negroes Instructor: Professor Jonathan Holloway. Credit List [PDF]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
Go to the Course Home or watch other lectures: