Universal Negro Improvement Association (Chicago)

CTL-E-0359 · Organization · other · unspecified

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Harlem-headquartered Pan-African movement that built one of its largest divisions in Chicago's Black Belt in the early 1920s.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-042; source research type(s): Organization. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Chicago, Garveyism, and the history of the diasporic Midwest Erik S. McDuffie UIUC African American Studies/History

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