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32957, Dang, how did I forget these brothers: Posted by MALACHI, Tue May-24-05 11:50 AM
>George Padmore (trini >Kwame Toure (trini)
>But even if you look at >Garvey's movement, while most of the administration was >jamaican... the millions of followers were mostly African >American, so I wouldn't say it is anything specific about the >the west indies.
I see what you are saying brother Jahi, but would you agree that it seems more brothers who were CATALYSTS for Pan African thinking were of Caribbean descent? I realize that the vast majority of Garvey's FOLLOWERS were African American(Malcolm's father was one of them)...but it seems like many LEADERS were West Indian.
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