Archival Info

Marcus Garvey at Liberty Hall, 1924

Donation envelope for the Universal Negro Improvement Association

Amy Ashwood (Garvey) was one of the founding members of the UNIA in Jamaica and Marcus Garvey’s first wife. In October 1919, when George Tyler attempted to assassinate Garvey at the UNIA offices is Harlem, Ashwood shielded him and helped to save his life.

Explanation of the Objects of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, Marcus Garvey, Liberty Hall 1921 (found here)

Excerpt from the book Walking Harlem by Karen F. Tiborn that talks about the location of Marcus Garvey and the UNIA’s Liberty Hall at 120 Odell Clark Place

Certificate of Occupancy for 120 W. 138th Street in 1937

The Universal Negro Improvement Association’s International Convention of Negroes of the World, 1921

Marcus Garvey at Liberty Hall, 1920. Wikimedia Commons.

Advertisement for the Fourth Annual International Convention for the Negro Peoples of the World, 1924

Article recounting a fight that broke out at Liberty Hall, 1929

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

Transcript of the hearing to report upon the right of of Adam Clayton Powell to be sworn in as a representative of the state of New York in the 90th Congress, February 1967