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Marcus Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in 1914 to promote the improvement of living conditions for black Africans and people of black African descent in North and South America, the Caribbean, and Europe. In this quote, from a speech given in 1921, Garvey explains the goal of the UNIA. The text of the quote is: “We of the Universal Negro Improvement Association are raising the cry of ‘Africa for the Africans’—those at home and those abroad. There are 400 million Africans in the world who have Negro blood coursing through their veins. And we believe that the time has come to unite these 400 million people for the one common purpose of bettering their condition.”
Culver Pictures/"Explanation of the Objects of the Universal Negro Improvement Association", written and delivered by Marcus Garvey. Courtesy of the UCLA Marcus Garvey & UNIA Papers Project. All rights reserved.
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