The UNIA briefly united an unprecedented and internally contradictory Black coalition

Evidence

For a short time in the early 1920s, the Garveyites held together an unprecedented black coalition which included cultural nationalists, political nationalists, opponents of organized religion (atheists, separatists, or simply reformers), advocates of armed rebellion, pacifists, women’s liberation fighters, participants in Democratic and Republican machine politics, a smattering of left-wingers, many who wanted no contact with whites, and a small but significant number who wanted the UNIA to cooperate with integrated civil rights organizations to end discrimination and segregation. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2233

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2233
• XREF: connects to: The UNIA and the Brotherhood prefigured the Communist Party’s Black successes.; The UNIA peaked from 1918 to 1923 as the most formidable Black movement. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1014; The UNIA pursued democratic rights to build a separate black world, unlike the NAACP. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1012 (+1 more)