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Appendix B Numbers of Southern Members of unia Divisions by State The numbers of southern members of unia divisions were derived from a 1926–28 card file of unia divisions and chapters that was discovered with other fragments of unia Parent Body and Central Division records and papers in an abandoned apartment building in Harlem in 1970. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the Harlem branch of the New York Public Library now holds this card file. It is the only part of those documents that has not been microfilmed. I have thoroughly examined each of these cards to determine membership numbers. This is the most complete evidence of unia divisions as a whole that is extant, although it dates from the twilight period of the American Garvey movement. The most pertinent information we derive from this collection is where divisions and chapters were located rather than actual membership numbers. Since most of the listed divisions received charters in 1921, these 1926–28 fragments reflect drastically reduced membership numbers. These numbers are an accounting of the most loyal and devoted of the unia’s core, but they represent not even a fraction of the organization’s size and popularity in its heyday. Each card has a column for member numbers, which each division was to report after each meeting. These numbers reflect the actual number of members present at each meeting. The numbers fluctuated, and the numbers I used to add up state totals were for the largest local meeting attendance given for the two-year period between 1926 and 1928. Some divisions, although active, did not send in all the information the parent body requested, such as reports and member numbers. The card file contains records of the existence of these divisions, but no specific membership statistics for them. However, in order to form a division and receive a charter, a division had to have a minimum of seven charter members. For division cards with no member numbers recorded, I used seven as an estimate. Alabama 287 Arkansas 395 Florida 4,974 Georgia 217 Louisiana 1,039 Mississippi 712 North Carolina 648 South Carolina 233 Tennessee 172 Texas 70 Virginia 776 total 9,523 ...

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