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Negro World which has a weekly circulation of several thousand . 6 Through
these vehicles Garvey organized approximately five million African-Americans
into the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) .
The Garvey movement was part of the New Negro Movement in which
black radicalism came into full blossom . In a certain sense, the Garvey
movement, though it represented the feelings of millions of Africens, was
the right to center wing of the black liberation movement of its time .
The UNIA aroused pride in black people, and several incidents between,
authorities and Garveyites occurred .
For the most part, the Garvey movement
channeled black activism away from agitating against racist/class
oppression in the United States and towards returning black to Africa .
This became the bone of contention between most black radicals and Garvey
as his movement intensified .
But even though the Garvey movement concentrated
its efforts on repatriation, it affected the political atmosphere
in the states .
In New Orleans, Garveyites protested 'Jim Crow' trolley car seating,
refusing to sit in the 'colored' section . Blacks turned en masse with
guns to demand that the mayor of New Orleans allow Garvey to speak after
Garvey had been refused . Garvey came to New Orleans and sopke in the
black community . On one occasion, the white police entered an auditorium
where Garvey was speaking and according to an eyewitness account, the
entire
audience rose to its feet with guns
and demanded the white police to
leave . The white police left and Garvey had a peaceful meeting . In New
6Amy Jacques Garvey, Garvey and Garveyism . (New York : Collier
Books, 1963), p . 40 .