levant in the study of the process ofdecolonization in Africa and the Caribbean. As ifin confirmation of the success with which Garveyism implanted itself in various social settings,when Garvey himself proposed to visit Africa and the Caribbean in 1923, nervous Europeancolonial governors joined in recommending that his entry into their territories be banned. Manymodern Caribbean nationalist leaders have acknowledged the importance of Garveyism in theirown careers, including T. Albert Marryshow of Grenada; Alexander Bustamante, St. WilliamGrant, J. A. G. Smith, and Norman Washington Manley of Jamaica; and Captain ArthurCipriani, Uriah Butler, George Padmore, and C. L. R. James of Trinidad.Before the Garvey and UNIA Papers project was established, the only attempt to edit Garvey'sspeeches and writings was the Philosophy & Opinions of Marcus Garvey, a propagandisticapologia compiled in two successive volumes in the early 1920s by his second wife, AmyJacques Garvey. As Lawrence Levine notes, "It is always unwise to rely too exclusively upon acollection edited by the subject, especially in the light of recent indications that the Garveysaltered a number of speeches and articles to conform with his later views" (Levine, op. cit.).While the Philosophy & Opinions volumes served to plead Garvey's legal case, they alsocreated a politically distorted picture of the UNIA, an image that for a long time severelyhandicapped research.In this context, the Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers provides a full, objective account of themovement and its leader, as it chronicles how the movement achieved a global dimension byawakening the political consciousness of African and Caribbean peoples to the goals of racial ...
