MARCUS GARVEY BLACK NATIONALIST AND BACK TO AFRICA PROPONENT REAL PHOTO C. 1920 BUTTON.
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Winning Bid:
$159.65
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Tuesday, June 29, 2021 9:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Tuesday, June 29, 2021 9:00:00 PM)
Item Description
1.25" w/"Phila. Badge Co." on curl and union bug back stamp. Text "Hon. Marcus Garvey Provisional President Of Africa." Produced just after the August 1920 Madison Square Garden Convention of his Universal Negro Improvement Association during which UNIA adopted a Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World, a "nation" flag in red, black and green and Garvey was elected as Provisional President of Africa. 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. Glossy and Exc. displaying Mint. This is the button photographed for the book (page 127) Button Power by Carter/Hake. Comes w/Hake's COA.
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