Negro World

Mm-hmm.

But the actual records of the UNIA itself, their division records, their meeting minutes, and reading the Negro World newspaper where the membership reported on itself, and they named each other, and they gave addresses, and they gave dates, and they gave money receipts.

And then I started to see that, wait, there's a lot of women in here.

I thought that this was supposed to be about male hierarchy, and Black nationalism is paternalistic, and all this other stuff.

Mm-hmm.

And so in Black studies, our methodology asks us to engage community in myriad ways.

Um, and so part of it actually meant that I was going to cemeteries to read, um, headstones so that I could figure out if this person in the Negro world is the person that's buried here, and then find out who their relatives were that were keeping up the grave site so that I could now have access to primary sources from that family.

Um, it meant traveling, um, the globe to places like South Africa, and Ghana, and Trinidad, and Grenada, and Costa Rica, and Nova Scotia to meet Garveyites who are still very much so members of the UNIA today, and recognizing that it is still very much so a, um, active organization with an agenda, um, just like the NAACP, just like the Urban League.