The Voyage Departs in '27

1920 UNIA Parade, Harlem — UNIA members marching with flags, the mass movement behind the Black Star Line

★ New York · Autumn 1919 ★

The S.S. Yarmouth, first ship of the Black Star Line, departs

★ UNIA Parade · Harlem · c. 1920 ★ Photograph · provenance pending · candidate archives: Schomburg Photographs & Prints Division / Library of Congress

Bureau of Investigation · Division Five 190-1781-6

✻ Reconstruction ✻
Composite of period Bureau voice · not a single document
Tap panel for the actual 1921 Hoover letter

Confidential

FBI Vault — Hoover letter, October 23, 1921

★ The actual file ★ J. Edgar Hoover · October 23, 1921 · File 190-1781-6 · Public domain

Atlanta Federal Penitentiary · February 1925

— Marcus

First Message to the Negroes of the World from Atlanta Prison · Feb. 10, 1925
from Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Vol. II
Amy Jacques Garvey, ed. (1925) · public domain

★ His Voice ★ 1921 phonograph

★ Marcus Garvey · 1921 phonograph · transcript via Wikisource Fellow citizens of Africa, I greet you…

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The voyage departs in '27.

Grab your ticket.

SS Yarmouth (renamed SS Frederick Douglass by the BSL), c. 1919–1922 — Black Star Line

SS Yarmouth · renamed SS Frederick Douglass by the BSL · 1919–1922 Photograph · T.H. Franklin / SSHSA collection, University of Baltimore Library · via Watson, Steamboat Bill

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