Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind Description: At the
turn of the century, instead of responding to lynchings of
African Americans with peaceful protests, Marcus Garvey was
determined to aggressively unify black people around the world
and build an independent black nation. Despite accusations of
fiscal mismanagement, Garvey established the Universal Negro
Improvement Association and traveled the nation attracting
thousands of members to the military-decorated ranks of its
African Legion. Accusing black leaders such as W. E. B. DuBois
and A. Phillip Randolph of being weak and self-serving, Garvey
aggressively focused on empowering the masses as he transformed
cooks, maids, and janitors with the pride that comes with a
title and a uniform. Garvey instituted a new nationalism urging
black folk to claim Africa's glorious past and to see, for the
first time, the beauty they possessed. Movie summaries and
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