A Call to all the People of Asbury Park to Hear The Greatest Living Negro and Orator Hon. Marcus Garvey: Museum Object and Cultural History
A Call to all the People of Asbury Park to Hear The Greatest Living Negro and Orator Hon. Marcus Garvey: Date: 1924. Printed by: Unidentified. Subject of: Marcus Garvey, Jamaican, 1887 - 1940.
The object in the museum catalogue
A handbill in black ink printed on off-white paper advertising a lecture by Marcus Garvey in Asbury Park, New Jersey. The top two-thirds of the handbill read, [A Call to all the People of / ASBURY PARK / TO HEAR / The Greatest Living Negro Leader and Orator / Hon. MARCUS GARVEY / President General of The Universal Negro Improvement / Association and Provisional President of Africa / AT / Roseland Hall / Springwood Avenue, Corner Atkins Avenue / On / THURSDAY NIGHT, NOV. 13th 1924]. Additional text below reads [Come and hear about The BLACK CROSS NAVIGATION / STEAMSHIP CO. Organized by Negroes to trade with / AFRICA, SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA, and the / WEST INDIES].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1924
- Printed by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Marcus Garvey, Jamaican, 1887 - 1940
- Subject of: Universal Negro Improvement Association, American, founded 1914
- Subject of: Black Cross Navigation & Trading Co., Inc., American, ca.1924
- Type: handbills
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 10 × 6 1/8 in. (25.4 × 15.6 cm)
- Place used: Asbury Park, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: Africa
- Topic: African diaspora
- Topic: Commerce
- Topic: Oratory
- Topic: U.S. History, 1919-1933
- Object number: 2014.63.61
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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