The Marcus Garvey movement, led by Marcus Garvey, grew to become the largest organized Black international association in human history, with 6 million members across 40 countries by the late 1920s, built in less than a decade without modern technology such as computers, mobile phones, or internet, demonstrating that effective international organizing can be achieved through traditional means including steamship lines, newspapers, businesses, educational institutions, and international conferences.
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But the white racist power structure did against you does not in any way whatsoever diminish the achievements.
In fact, what they did is evidence itself of how powerful those achievements truly were.
The Marcus Garvey movement, the Garvey movement, you're talking about 6 million members across 40 countries by the late 1920s.
That's the largest organized black international association in human history built in less than a decade.
Subhan Allah.
Without computers, without mobile phones, without internet, without any sort of, you know, modern transportation, without any technological tools that your generation considers to be minimum requirements of organizing. 6 million members, 40 countries, steamship lines, newspapers, businesses, educational institutions, international conferences.
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