Regarding Marcus Garvey’s UNIA, it is most accurately described as: A mass grassroots Pan Africanist organization aimed at building political power on a level with the global white power structure, through first establishing an independent economic base for Blacks A black militant movement whose primary goal was mass repatriation turn of blacks to Africa as soon as possible; Liberia West Africa was to be its capital A mass, middle-class based organization aimed at acquiring political power; this would enable Blacks to secure an economic base independent of the White power structure A moderately sized but economically powerful Black separatist group limited to Harlem’s radical blacks; the UNIA guided and inspired the Black Harlemites by using parades, pageantry, and political alliances with the KKK
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