Black Exodus: Black Nationalist and Back-to-Africa Movements, 1890-1910 (Yale Publications in American Studies Book 17) (Y-225)

xi, 319 pp. Today's black nationalism grows from a tradition which originated long before Marcus Garvey excited urban blacks in the 1920's. Mr. Redkey has detailed- often in the poignant words of the participants- the reasons for and the fate of several back-to-Africa schemes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.