Martin Luther King Jr.: The Rise Of Black Nationalism

The years following World War I were filled with disillusionment for American blacks, however it was a transformative moment in African-American history for the social, political, and economic future of black people. The struggle for black freedom was not easy to attain, yet with the fight from many political leaders it was able to take off. For example, one particular political leader that played a major role in the development of black freedom is Marcus Garvey. Just like Martin Luther King Jr., Marcus can be seen as a charismatic leader by providing concrete benefits to their members. He helped shape the course of black experience after the World War I era by combining his ideas of Garveyism and founding the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). This …show more content…
Due to tis tremendous size and spread it resembled a nation (Ula Taylor page 3). Marcus who is a Jamaican immigrant to the United States greatly influenced the twentieth-century Black Nationalism. Black Nationalism is the notion advocating a racial definition of national identity for blacks, a way to give blacks the opportunity to make themselves feel and become equal to their so called superior white class. This paper will further explain the rise of Black Nationalism, Garvey and his visions along with the role of gender through the authors Ula Talylor, Howard Brotz and Alain Locke. It was the post war era in which Black Nationalism and the rise of black freedom began to emerge. World War I can be seen