During this year's Black History Month celebrations, I will be giving lectures and reading from my recently published YA novel, Garvey's Ghost.
Here are a few of the books about Marcus Garvey that I'd recommend
for students, parents, teachers, community activists, librarians, or anyone interested in learning more about this great man. While this is by no means the definitive list, I hope it is a starting point for those who would like to learn more about this great man.
College
The Philosophy and
Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans by Marcus Garvey and
Amy Jacques Garvey. Routledge.
Garvey and Garveyism
by Amy Jacques Garvey. Octagon Books.
Race First: The
Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal
Negro Improvement Association by Tony Martin. Majority Press.
Negro with a Hat: The
Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey by Colin Grant. Oxford University Press.
Marcus Garvey Life and
Lessons: A Centennial Companion to the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro
Improvement Association by Marcus Garvey, Robert A. Hill and Barbara Blair.
University of California Press.
Marcus Garvey:
Anti-Colonial Champion by Rupert Lewis. Africa World Press.
Marcus Garvey and the
Vision of Africa by John Henrik Clarke. Black Classic Press.
A Rastafari view of Marcus Mosiah Garvey: Patriarch, prophet, philosopher by I. Jabulani Tafari. Frontline Distribution International.
The source for Garvey scholars:
The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Volumes 1-10
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This is first serious study of Marcus Garvey. I am noting it only for its historical significance.
Black Moses: The Story
of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association by E.
David Cronon and John Hope Franklin. University of Wisconsin Press.
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Fourth to Twelfth Grade
Marcus Garvey, Hero: A
First Biography by Tony Martin. Majority Press.
Selected Writings and
Speeches of Marcus Garvey by Marcus Garvey and Bob Blaisdell. Dover
Publications.
Marcus Garvey (Black
Americans of Achievement) by Mary Lawler, Nathan I. Huggins and Coretta
Scott King. Chelsea House Publications.
A Man Called Garvey:
The Life and Times of the Great Leader Marcus Garvey by Paloma Mohamed and
Barrington Braithwaite. Majority Press.
Marcus Garvey by
Suzanne Francis-Brown and Jean Jacques Vaysierres. Ian Randle Publishers.
Selected Utterances of
Marcus Garvey and the Garveyites. Rootz Foundation, Inc.
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Marcus Garvey: Black Nationalist by Peggy Caravantes. Morgan Reynolds Pub.
A few historical errors, including Garvey's name, which Caravantes lists as Malchus:
K-3
Marcus Teaches Us by
Eleanor Wint. Trafford Press.
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