Most UNIA histories were written by critics who reduced the movement to Garvey’s personality

Evidence

Since most histories of the organization were written by its critics, distortions of the UNIA abound in the literature. They are especially marked with regard to its founder and principal organizer, Marcus Garvey. … But the one predominant tactic of the UNIA’S critics was to identify the organization with Garvey, thus tending to reduce their criticisms to studies of aberrant personality or political opportunism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1006

Categorization

• XREF: The critique that hostile historiography distorted the UNIA parallels the reader’s interest in how the radical tradition was written out of history.