UNIA social events were engineered to build pride in Blackness

Evidence

Socially, the UNIA was a huge club and fraternal order… . For Garveyites, there was the fraternal camaraderie of all the black people of the world, UNIA parades, Saturday night parties, women’s group luncheons, etc., had a significance far beyond that of providing social diversion. Their affairs were designed to build a pride and confidence in blackness. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1013