American Experience - Season 13 Episode 6 : Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind

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American Experience - Season 13 Episode 6 : Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
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Title:American Experience - Season 13 Episode 6 : Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
Genre: Documentary
Air Date: 2001-02-12
Season Number: 13
Episodes Number: 6
Guest Stars: Carl Lumbly (Narrator (voice))
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Overview
Recalling racial-pride advocate Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), whose grand (some said grandiose) vision included an Africa run by Africans. Garvey's Harlem-based United Negro Improvement Association was more than just a civil-rights group -- it was a business and publishing empire. But it wasn't a well-run one, and his story doesn't have a happy ending (due, in part, to a young Justice Department lawyer named J. Edgar Hoover). Still, says narrator Carl Lumbly, Garvey "changed forever the way black Americans looked at themselves and the world.
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