United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.00597291922Marcus Garvey, the Jamaican-born founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, presides over the organization's 1922 convention at Liberty Hall in New York City.Photograph of Marcus Garvey, the Jamaican-born founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, presiding over the organization's 1922 convention at Liberty Hall in New York City. Seated at a desk, he wears a suit and patterned vest. He holds a gavel in his left hand.The Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) had at least thirty-four divisions in Georgia during the early to mid-1920s. Black Georgians read its newspaper, the Negro World, and contributed generously to many UNIA causes. The UNIA's Jamaican founder, Marcus Garvey, had a significant following in the South, particularly in rural areas among tenant farmers and sharecroppers, for his programs of economic independence, racial separatism, and African redemption. His ideas also found strong support in urban areas with large black populations, in the Caribbean, and in Africa.image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/universal-negro-improvement-associationForms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/universal-negro-improvement-associationForms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaUniversal Negro Improvement AssociationCongresses and conventions--New York (State)--New YorkCivil rights workers--New York (State)--New YorkPublishers and publishing--New York (State)--New YorkPhilanthropists--New York (State)--New YorkDesks--New York (State)--New YorkGavels--New York (State)--New YorkBlack nationalism--United StatesAuthors, Jamaican--New York (State)--New YorkMarcus GarveyStillImage