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Auction: 10USA - NYC Currency and Stock & Bond Auction
Lot: 1040

Black Star Line (DE) 1919. #6632. Four Shares. Green . Globe with ´Africa The Land Of Opportunity´ flanked by a laborer and luxury liner. Signed by Marcus Garvey as president. VF.* Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), was a Jamaican printer and editor who organized the Universal Negro Improvement Organization. He eventually brought this Negro nationalist movement to New York. Convinced that the Negro could not prosper in countries where they were the minority race, Garvey urged a "Back to Africa" movement, and he conceived of a steamship company trading between New York, the West Indies and Africa. Over half a million dollars in subscriptions poured in, but the enterprise never materialized. Garvey was arrested, convicted of fraud, and after two years, deported to Jamaica. Garvey raised the race-consciousness of this nation, and followers of his philosophy persist to this day. An important piece of Afro-American history. Estimate US$ 1,000-2,000

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