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Set the World on Fire

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Set the World on Fire

By Keisha N. Blain

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About the book

In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to West Africa. In 1937, Celia Jane Allen traveled to Jim Crow Mississippi to organize rural black workers around black nationalist causes. In the late 1940s, from her home in Kingston, Jamaica, Amy Jacques Garvey launched an extensive letter-writing campaign to defend the Greater Liberia Bill, which would relocate 13 million black Americans to West Af...Show more

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9780812249880

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press

Published year

2018

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1

Original title

Set the World on Fire

Format

Hardcover

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