UNIA Chicago Divisions

CTL-E-0419 · Organization · other · unspecified

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By 1920 the Universal Negro Improvement Association, founded in Jamaica by Marcus Garvey in 1914, had several Chicago divisions, principally on the South Side, with weekly Liberty Hall meetings and associated businesses.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-104; source research type(s): Organization. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Encyclopedia of Chicago (encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/502.html); 'Garveyism and the Midwest' (crossculturalsolidarity.com PDF)

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Hallway of a kitchenette apartment building, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

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