Universal Negro Improvement Association (Corporate Name)

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Universal Negro Improvement Association Philadelphia Division records, 1919-1920: (Universal Negro Improvement Association was an international self-help organization founded in 1914 by Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) in Jamaica)

Wikipedia, Feb. 14, 2014 (Universal Negro Improvement Association, a black nationalist fraternal organization founded by Marcus Garvey; he founded the UNIA in August 1914, in Jamaica, as a means of uniting all of Africa and its diaspora into "one grand racial hierarchy." After traveling through the United States beginning in March 1916, Garvey inaugurated the New York Division of the UNIA in 1917 with 13 members. After only three months, the organization's dues-paying membership reached 3500) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Negro_Improvement_Association_and_African_Communities_League