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Appendix C Numbers of Sympathizers Involved in Mass Meetings and Petitions for Garvey’s Release from Jail and Prison, 1923–1927 Hundreds of letters, telegrams, cablegrams, and petitions from Garvey supporters and unia divisions from all over the United States and the Caribbean can be found in the U.S. Pardon Attorney Records, Record Group 204: 42-793, boxes 1159–62, and the U.S. Department of Justice Records, Record Group 60: 198940, box 3053, at the National Archives II, College Park, Maryland. Most of these pleaded for the president or the attorney general to make a close examination of Garvey’s case and to consider a recommendation for clemency. At various stages of Garvey’s trial and imprisonment, Garvey’s wife and other unia leaders urged his supporters to hold rallies and mass meetings and to pass resolutions and send petitions to the U.S. government to indicate the level of support for Garvey felt among black Americans. The numbers represented below were derived by counting petition signatures and adding numbers of people reportedly attending mass meetings, according to the letters and telegrams and enclosed petitions. The evidence of these mass meetings is one of our most graphic sources of information on the level of sympathy for Garvey and his movement among southern blacks. Alabama 10,000 Arkansas 28,495 Florida 4,700 Georgia 6,000 Louisiana 57,576 Mississippi 16,898 South Carolina 5,200 Tennessee 100 Texas 5,250 Virginia 12,650 total 146,869 ...

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