US and British governments actively colluded to destroy UNIA influence

Evidence

Weisbord has indicated, in part, the extent to which the American and British governments colluded to destroy the UNIA’s influence among Black Americans, inhabitants of the West Indies and Africa. Ibid., pp. 57–82. Robert A. Hill in discussions with this author has traced J. Edgar Hoover’s sly obsession with the emergence of a “Black messiah” to his acquaintance with the UNIA in the 1920s. Hoover, as a young bureaucrat in the Department of Justice was instrumental in delaying Garvey’s return to the United States from Central America in 1922. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2236

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Hoover’s ‘Black messiah’ obsession ties into the state-surveillance theme of the radical tradition’s suppression.

Related

• US and British governments colluded to suppress the UNIA (similarity 0.90)
• Hoover’s black-messiah obsession began with the UNIA in the 1920s (similarity 0.87)
• Hostile historiography reduced the UNIA to Garvey’s personality. (similarity 0.82)