- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- Nationhood: a study of emigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, 1996
- Creator:
- Lucus, Deirda D.
- Date of Original:
- 1996-01-05
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Black nationalism, often defined as self-determination of African American people within the framework of an independent nation-state, has existed from the moment Africans set foot on American soil. Leaders such as Paul Cuffee, Henry Highland Garnet, and Martin Delany showed great interest in the emigration of Blacks to Africa, or any Caribbean country where they could become an integral part of the social order, as early as 1814. More formalized plans for emigration were realized through organizations such as the American Colonization Society in 1817 and the Garvey movement of the 1920's. Africans in America who were interested in emigration saw it as a way of controlling their fate. They believed that Africa was the one place on earth where Blacks could build a nation of their own and escape American oppression.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1996_lucus_deirda_d
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
-
