Black Moses: The Story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association

Acknowledgments

* ACKNOWLEDGMENTS *A debt of appreciation is due to the many persons who have helped in the preparation of this work. Mrs. Amy Jacques Garvey has given freely of both her time and her great store of information to supply needed facts that she alone was in a position to give. Mrs. Garvey kindly prepared a biographical account of her husband's early life in Jamaica and furnished me with scarce copies of his publications . I am also greatly indebted to Mr. Hodge Kirnon of New York City for his helpful advice and the generous use of his extensive collection of Garvey material. Professor Abram L. Harris of the University of Chicago, Mr. A. Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Mr. William Pickens of the United States Treasury Department , and Mrs. Amy Ashwood Garvey commented helpfully on various aspects of the movement. Miss Jean Blackwell, curator of the Schomburg Collection of the New York Public Library, Mrs. Dorothy B. Porter, supervisor of the Moorland Collection of the Howard University Library , Dr. Percy Powell of the Division of Manuscripts of xxi Copyrighted Material xxii Acknowledgments the Library of Congress, and Mr. Charles Nowell of the Manchester (England) City Library all helped to shorten my research labors considerably. Professor John Hope Franklin of Howard University patiently read the manuscript and at all stages of its production offered friendly encouragement and wise advice. Two of my fellow Fulbright scholars at the University of Manchester, Miss M. Janice Murphy and Mr. William R. Chadeayne, also gave generously of their considerable editorial and literary skills. It is no doubt fitting that I acknowledge here my debt to Senator J. William Fulbright, the patron of postwar international education, whose legislative vision made possible a year of study in Great Britain during which the manuscript benefited from further research and revision. In this connection I would be remiss if I did not also express my thanks to Mr. Alan Pifer and the staff of the United States Educational Commission in the United Kingdom and to Sir Ronald Adam, director-general of the British Council, for their yeoman efforts to introduce me to British scholarly resources and, upon occasion, to open closed doors. Like all scholars who have had the good fortune to ask their aid, I am indebted to the efficient staffs of the following institutions: the University of Wisconsin Library, the Wisconsin State Historical Society Library, the Schomburg Collection, the Howard UniverSity Library, the Library of Congress, the National Archives of the United States, the British Museum, the British Colonial Office Library, the Royal Empire Society Library, the University of Manchester Library, the Manchester City Library and the Sterling Memorial Library of Yale UniverSity. Lastly, lowe a special debt of gratitude to the two persons who have helped most to bring this work to a conclusion . To my good friend and wise teacher, Professor Howard K. Beale of the University of Wisconsin, I am Copyrighted Material Acknowledgments xxiii indebted in more ways than can possibly be listed here. I owe much to Professor Beale's careful training in the techniques of historical research, but even more to his penetrating suggestions and patient criticism. His interest in and knowledge of the subject have been a source of both encouragement and enlightenment. And without the considerable assistance of my uncomplaining wife, Jean Hotmar Cronon, this study would lack a great deal of whatever merit it now possesses. Black Moses is in a very real sense their book, and I hope it justifies their faith in me. Although the preceding list of acknowledgments indicates the extent to which other persons have contributed to this study, all errors of fact and interpretation are, of course, mine alone. E. D. C. May 23, 1954 Copyrighted Material Copyrighted Material *BLACK MOSES Copyrighted Material Copyrighted Material ...