MARCUS GARVEY REAL PHOTO BUTTON C. 1920 OF BLACK NATIONALIST AND BACK TO AFRICA PROPONENT.
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Winning Bid:
$147.50
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 10:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Tuesday, November 14, 2017 10:00:00 PM)
Item Description
1.25" with Phila. Badge Co. on curl and union bug back stamp. Photo is without dot pattern. Text "Hon. Marcus Garvey/Provisional President Of Africa." Garvey was the leader of the "Back To Africa" movement and founder of the short-lived Black Star Steamship Line, which sold stock through coupons in African-American newspapers. In the early 1920s his Universal Negro Improvement Association was the largest secular organization in African-American history. Whites considered him an agitator and J. Edgar Hoover prosecuted him for mail fraud in 1923. After two years in prison, he was deported to Jamaica, his birth country. Exc. displaying Mint.
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