Ferrara Levi Mitchison Lord (My Great-Grandfather): UNIA Brooklyn Division-gctid39563

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From: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association papers By Robert A. Hill, Marcus Garvey

Ferrara Levi Mitchinson Lord was born in the parish of St. Philip, Barbados, on 25 October
1890 and baptized on 6 December of the same year at Holy Trinity Church, also in St. Philip.
His parents were Samuel Francis Lord, a fisherman, and his wife Georgiana (nee Ward) of Sea
View in St. Philip. Levi Lord was trained as a schoolteacher and was also taught the craft of
shoemaking by his father. After working as a policeman in Barbados for several months, in 1918
he migrated to the United States, settling in Brooklyn, where he found work in a shoe factory.
Hearing about Marcus Garvey and other black radicals, Lord visited Harlem, heard Garvey speak,
and joined the movement. Proficient in shorthand, he became a transcriber of Garvey's speeches
for the Negro World. In the fall of 1923, together with Alonzo Pettiford, president of the Detroit
division, Lord was awarded the order of Knight Commander of the Cross of Kmtyw Redemption.
He had assumed the role of auditor general of the UNIA before being appointed chancellor in 1923.
Lord later helped to found the Paragon Credit Union in Brooklyn, of which he was a treasurer
and manager. He resigned from the UNIA in October 1927 (NW, 22 September 1923, n September
1926, 26 March and rs October 1927; letter to Levi Lord, r August 1922, NN-Sc, UNIA Central
Division records, box 2; Ferrara Levi Lord, interview with Robert A. Hill, June-July 1978).

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i give thanks for the legacy this ancestor bequeathed to his children, and their children's children. 7 generations from now we will still be blessed by this legacy!

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Meda ase...in libations we call the names of those who work for the race...

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NOTABLE MEMBERS OF THE UNIA
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• Dusé Mohamed Ali
  
• Isaac B. Allen
• Thomas W. Anderson
  
• Claudie Barnes
• James Bennett
  
• Irene Moorman Blackstone
• Samuel Häggblom
• Clifford Bourne
• Isaac S. Bright
• Benjamin E. Burrell
• Norman Burton
  
• Eliezer Cadet
• Clarence A. Carpenter
• James R. Cato
• Shirley Chisholm
  
• G.R. Christian
• Walter J. Conway
• Arnold Lemuel Crawford
• Henrietta Vinton Davis
  
• L.A. Davis
• Mamie Leona Turpeau DeMena-Aiken
• Rev. James Robert Lincoln Diggs
• Henry Dolphin
• Daisy Dunn
• James Walker Hood Eason
• William H. Ferris
  
• M.A. Figueroa
• Arnold Josiah Ford
  
• Timothy Thomas Fortune
  
• Lionel Antonio Francs
• Capt. Emmett L. Gaines
• Elie Garcia
• Amy Jacques Garvey
  
• Marcus Garvey
  
• John Edward (Bruce) Grit
• Henry Harris
• Mrs. Henry Harris
• Hubert Henry Harrison
  
• Mason Hargrave
• Thomas Watson Harvey
• Amy Haynes
• James Haynes
  
• Samuel Alfred Haynes
  
• Zora Neale Hurston
  
• Charles Lynell James
• Captain A L King
• Ferrara Levi Mitchison Lord
• Joseph Robert Love
• George Osborne Marke
• Granzaline Marshall
• S.B. Martin
• E.R. Matthews
• Carrie B. Mero
• Cleo Miller
  
• Hucheshwar G. Mudgal
• Hugh Mulzac
  
• James Hamble Perkins
• Janie Perkins
• Andrew G. Pio
• Alberta Porter
• Robert Lincoln Poston
  
• Thomas Vincent Ramos
  
• Henry James Ramsay
• Harriet Rogers
• Henry Langdon
• Theresa Brewster
• Julia E. Rumford
• Rev. D.L. Reed
• Chief Alfred Sam
• Wheeler Sheppard
• William LeVan Sherrill
• Sidney Smith
  
• T.E. Smith
• Effie Stepter
• James Robert Stewart
• Joseph Henderson Stewart
• Eric D. Walrond
  
• Fleming Du Bignon Webster
• Ethel Williams
• Vernon Wilson
• Irene W. Wingfield

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Kmt for the Kmtyws at Home and Abroad!!!

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Legacy!

An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor.

Lerone Bennett, Jr.

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kevlew;215669 wrote: Legacy!

An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor.

Lerone Bennett, Jr.

Betta know! We ain't new to this, we true to this!

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Obadele Kambon;215673 wrote: Betta know! We ain't new to this, we true to this!

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I listened to the video. Good info.  They come for you at night and me in the morning.  In order to be independent we have to stop being dependent.  Brother was dropping some nuggets.  As soon as he said the F word I knew it was coming!

An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor.

Lerone Bennett, Jr.

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kevlew;215675 wrote: I listened to the video. Good info.  They come for you at night and me in the morning.  In order to be independent we have to stop being dependent.  Brother was dropping some nuggets.  As soon as he said the F word I knew it was coming!

An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor.

Lerone Bennett, Jr.

BlackSolutely. I just reached out to Prof Robert A. Hill, who interviewed my great grandfather back in 1978. I would be interested in a transcript or just whatever he remembers or can point me to. I'm especially interested in finding out why he resigned from the UNIA a month before Garvey was deported. His later pics and work with Paragon show that he still believed in the cause, but I'd definitely like to get a sense of what he may have been thinking.

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Obadele Kambon;215680 wrote: BlackSolutely. I just reached out to Prof Robert A. Hill, who interviewed my great grandfather back in 1978. I would be interested in a transcript or just whatever he remembers or can point me to. I'm especially interested in finding out why he resigned from the UNIA a month before Garvey was deported. His later pics and work with Paragon show that he still believed in the cause, but I'd definitely like to get a sense of what he may have been thinking.

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I was just reading the timeline on the unia acl site and it shows the split that happened between the unia Inc and unia acl. There might be some clues therein

An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor.

Lerone Bennett, Jr.

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Timeline

UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION, INC.

(A NEW YORK CORPORATION)*
AND UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION AND Kmtyw COMMUNITIES LEAGUE 1929 OF THE WORLD, INC.

(AN OHIO CORPORATION)

TIMELINE OF CONTINUED EXISTENCE

2011 Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities League 1918 and 1929 of the World, Inc.

August 1, 1914*– The first attempt to found the UNIA is made by Marcus Garvey and others in Jamaica.

July 1917*– The New York Division was formed and became the new headquarters of the Association. This Division dissolved a few months later.

July 02, 1918*- The UNIA, Inc. is incorporated in New York by Isaac B. Allen, Irene M. Blackstone, Walter J. Conway, Carrie B. Mero, Harriet Rogers, and Marcus Garvey. Also in July of 1918 the "CONSTITUTION AND BOOK OF LAWS" "Made for the Government of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities League," went into effect.

1920*– The "First Great Convention" of the UNIA, Inc. was held at Madison Square Garden in Harlem, New York, with an attendance of 25,000 and a parade ten miles long.

1920*- During the 1920, 1921, and 1922 Conventions also held in New York, the "Constitution and Book of Laws" were duly amended.

August 1922*– Isaiah Emmanuel Morter attends an International Convention of the UNIA, Inc. while in New York seeking medical treatment. He is Knighted Commander of the Distinguished Order of Ethiopia. After his visit to the 1922 Convention he decides to bequeath 2/3 of his entire fortune to the UNIA, Inc.

1925*– Marcus Garvey, then President-General of the UNIA, Inc. was incarcerated.

THE FIRST SPLIT

March 1926*– Marcus Garvey, President-General in exile (still incarcerated), calls an emergency Convention to impeach the Acting President-General Sherrill and elected President Fred Toote as Acting President-General. This Convention is deemed unconstitutional and not recognized by the majority of members from other Divisions of the UNIA, Inc. including Cincinnati, Detroit, East Brooklyn, Washington, D.C., Georgia, etc.*

August 1926*– An International Convention of the UNIA, Inc. is held in New York where George Weston overwhelmingly defeats Marcus Garvey and is elected President-General. Afterwards, some disgruntled members loyal to Marcus Garvey called the Convention a sham, walked out and held a rival Convention a few blocks away where in his absence they elected Marcus Garvey as their President-General.

1926*- Immediately following Convention President-General Weston filed a series of legal grievances and complaints against the rival UNIA headed by Marcus Garvey and others, barring them from using the name UNIA claiming among other things, that Marcus Garvey and his disgruntled group were only using the name UNIA as a means of deceitfully acquiring the Morter Estate.*

1926*- President-General Weston's Convention having carried a majority of the membership, maintained jurisdictional authority over the corporate entity UNIA, Inc., and the members loyal to Marcus Garvey unofficially became known as the UNIA unincorporated.

1926 to present*- After Weston, Fred Toote, Clifford Borne, Lionel Francis, and Nana Prempeh (Milton Kelly, Jr.) become successive President-Generals of the UNIA, Inc. In 2005 Ahmed Assalaam, aka William R. Day is elected as Potentate and Supreme Commissioner of the UNIA, Inc. in New York.

December 1927*– Marcus Garvey is released from Prison and deported to Jamaica where he continued to organize and preside over the breakaway membership and attempts to move the headquarters from New York to Kingston, Jamaica.

August 1929*– Marcus Garvey holds convention in Jamaica where he publicly denounces and distinguishes his group as a separate entity from the UNIA, Inc. of New York. He names the new organization the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities League August 1929 of the World.

1929*- The UNIA, Inc. remains active and headquartered in New York.

1930-1940*– Marcus Garvey remains President-General of the newly organized UNIA & ACL August 1929 of the World until his death.

August 18 - 21 1940*** - The Emergency Conference of the UNIA-ACL 1929 was held to discuss, among other things, the Acting President-General to fill the remaining two years of Mr. Garvey's term. Commissioner James Robert Stewart (Cleveland, OH) is elected Acting President-General unanimously;* Commissioner Charles Lynell James from (Gary, IN) is elected Assistant Acting President-General; High Chancellor Thomas Watson Harvey retains his post; Secretary-General Ethel Collins retains her post; Daisy Whyte is elected Assistant Secretary-General; Theresa E. Young is elected Second Assistant Secretary-General. Amy Jacques Garvey sends a letter of support to the Conference attendees.

Historiographical Time Line of the UNIA-ACL
(June 10, 1940 – Present)
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*
June 10, 1940*- Marcus Garvey dies in ukkk after suffering a second cerebral hemorrhage or cardiac arrest while reading the inaccurate news reports of his death.
*
July 21, 1940*- Memorial Service for the Honorable Marcus Garvey held at St.Marks Methodist Episcopal. Captain Alfred Leslie King was Master of Ceremonies; Bishop Frederick Augustus Toote,* Reverend Father William Buchannan and Reverend H.A. Barnard were officiates.* Ave Maria was sung by coloratura soprano Madame Ethyl Houghton Clarke & Ethline Smith. 3,000 attended. (Spady, p. 72, 73)*
*
August 18 - 21 1940 -*The Emergency Conference of the UNIA-ACL 1929 was held to discuss, among other things, the Acting President-General to fill the remaining two years of Mr. Garvey's term. Commissioner James Robert Stewart (Cleveland, OH) is elected Acting President-General unanimously;* Commissioner Charles James* from (Gary, IN)* is elected Assistant Acting President- General; High Chancellor Thomas Watson Harvey retains his post; Secretary-General Ethel Collins retains her post; Daisy* Whyte is elected Assistant Secretary-General; Theresa E Young is elected Second Assistant Secretary-General. Amy Jacques Garvey sends a letter of support to the Conference* attendees. ( NAN , 8-31-1940, p.4,9; CD, 8-31-1940; Spady, p.73; CCP, 8-8-1941, p.4-A)
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September* 1940*- The UNIA Headquarters was transferred from New York to Cleveland. President-General Stewart also began touring the country, speaking on behalf of the Association. (BA, 10-5-1940, p.5)
*
Sept./Oct. 1940*- Letter from Barrister Basil J Spencer Pitt, Solicitor-General and Former Chair of the Emergency Convention to Amy Jacques Garvey concerning his ambivalence over the transfer of the International Headquarters from New York to Cleveland . (Spady, p.74)
*
October 19, 1940*- The New Negro World newspaper is launched in Cleveland , OH .*
(MGPP, Vol. X, p. 694)
*
February 2, 1941*- President Stewart and Assistant President-General James speak in New York as Mr. James launches a 60 day tour of the US East Coast Divisions. (CD, 2-8-1941, p.12)
*
February 14, 1941*- Third Executive Council Meeting was held in Cleveland during the 21st Anniversary of the UNIA's occupation of the Cleveland*
Liberty Hall. Ethel Collins expressed grievance over the Administration's failure to reimburse her for expenses. (Spady, p.75; CD, 2-8-1941, p.6)
*
February 25, 1941- President Stewart Address a Mass Meeting in Chicago at Bacon's Casino. (CD, 3-1-1941, p.
*
March 30, 1941- President Stewart and Dr, Wheat speak in Cincinnati , OH at Jones Tabernacle AME (CD, 3-29-1941, p.11)
*
April 13, 1941- President Stewart Appoints Sherrill to Head an International* Lobbying Committee called the Public Relations Committee.****************************************************** Members included: Carlos Cooks, Ethel Waddell, Charles L* James and Samuel R Wheat (Sherrill Papers; CD, 4-19-1941, p.5)
*
May 25, 1941*- The Montreal Division under President Ellis James Tucker hosts a Mother's Day Mass Meeting. (CD, 5-31-1941, p.11)
*
June 23, 1941*- Carlos Cooks founds the Kmtyw Nationalist Pioneer Movement on his 28th birthday. (Carlos Cooks and Black Nationalism p. xi-xiii)
*
July 20, 1941- New York Division hosts a Garvey Memorial Celebration at St. Mark's ME Church. President Robert Osborne of the Brooklyn*
Division was Master of Ceremonies. (8-2-1941 CD, p.4)
*
August 4, 1941*- The UNIA Inc of 1918, headed by President Lionel Antonio Francis in Belize and Vice President Dr. Charles Augustus******************************************************* Petioni in New York, sponsored a visit by the Solicitor General W T Courtenay to the Parent Body Headquarters 216 West 125th St NY, NY. He reported on the activities of the estate plantations in Belize . (CD, 8-23-1941, p.9)
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August 15 -20, 1941*- Western Hemisphere Conference of the UNIA-ACL was held in Cleveland with international delegates represented by proxy due to WWII. The Conference hosted a massive Garvey Day rally and parade on August 17. The Course of Kmtyw Philosophy was also taught by President-General Stewart. This is the first UNIA Convention held in the US since Mr. Garvey's death. A number of Parent Body Officers spoke including Arthur Clement* Moore, Commissioner of Canada. An Official Photo of the Conference was taken. Senator Bilbo cancelled his speaking* engagement scheduled for Garvey Day in New York under the auspices of the Advance Division and Kmtyw Patriotic League* Division of the UNIA-ACL 1929. The UNIA Inc held their annual convention at 158 W. 132nd St. (CCP, 8-9-1941, p.4A; CD, 8-23-31 CD, p.9; 8-16-1941 NY Amsterdam Star News, p.4; Photo Courtesy of Stewart Family)
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Nov. 23 - Dec. 1, 1941*- UNIA-ACL Sixth District Conference held in South Kinloch Park and St. Louis . Several Resolutions were passed and Divisions from Kansas City, MO; South Kinloch Park, MO; Forest City,* AK; Oklahoma City, OK; East St Louis, Ill; Kansas City, KS. (CD,12-6-1941, p.6)
*
May 31, 1942*- Greater New York Rehabilitating Committee host a Mass Meeting on World Crisis and the Negroes' Rights (ALK)
*
August 13 - 19, 1942*- The 9th International Convention was held in Cleveland , OH . The first in the US since Mr. Garvey died. Officers were elected, business reported and resolutions issued. (UNIA Pamphlet; 8/9-1942, p.10 NNW) (Photo Attached)
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Sept. 26-27, 1942*- A group of disgruntled members of the UNIA Rehabilitating Committee called a conference in New York to organize a campaign to oust President-General Stewart. Barrister Pitt becomes the first Chairman; Cleophus Jacobs Sr., Secretary-Treasurer. (Spady, p.83)
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August 28-31, 1943*- National Conference of the UNIA-ACL 1929 of the World held at Liberty Farms in Oregonia , OH . (NNW, 9-1943)
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November 21, 1943*- Montreal Division hosts Barrister Pitt's visit to help wind up building fund drive to secure UNIA property. (CD, 12-11-1943, p.19A)
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August 19-20, 1944*- Annual Conference at Liberty Farms (NNW, April-May 1944, p.3)
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April 1945*-* NPR Director William LeVan Sherrill is elected to observe and petition the UN in San Francisco . (CD, 4-28-1945, p.5)
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June 24, 1945*- The UNIA Rehabilitating Committee hosts a Mass Meeting at their Liberty Hall 2395 8th St , NY , NY . Cleophus Jacobs is***************************************** Secretary. (NYAN, 6-23-1945, p.7) during hurricane Hattie.

*August 4 – 30, 1946*- The Garvey Club sponsors the 8th International Convention of the Kmtyw Peoples of the World at the Golden Gate Auditorium in New York , chaired by Benjamin Gibbons. The convention opens with a parade and over 500 delegates were expected to attend. Invited guest speakers include: George Harris (Ethiopian World Federation), Arnold Crawford (Brooklyn Division UNIA), Dr. WV Cholmondeley (Garvey Memorial Hall, Philadelphia ), WH Ferman (Harlem Labor Union), Vernal J Williams (Attorney), Malcolm Levy (President, Garvey Youth Movement), et al. Confirmed speakers include: Arthur Reid (Kmtyw Progressive League), Mrs. Amy Jacques Garvey, Benjamin Gibbons, William Devine and Grant Reynolds. The convention concludes with the formation of the Universal Kmtyw Nationalist Movement. It is incorporated September 4th. (BA, 8-17-1946, p. 5; BA, 7-27-1946, p.5)
*
August 16-24, 1946*- 10th International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World held at Liberty Farms in Oregonia , OH . James Stewart is*
President-General and Christina Lyons is Secretary-General. (CD 8-24-1946, p.19B; UNIA 1946)
*
September 29, 1946*- Newly elected officers of the Universal Kmtyw Nationalist*
Movement were installed, including:* Mrs. Amy Jacques Garvey as Supreme Matron, Nnamdi Azikiwe as Supreme Potentate, Benjamin Gibbons as President-General, Arden Bryan as Secretary-General, et al. (CCP, 9-21-1946, p.5B)
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October 24, 1946*- The Garvey Memorial Liberty Hall dissolves the Rehabilitating* Committee and closes out its assets. The Hall attempted to sale its building to the UANM for one dollar through their mutual agent Llewllyn Campbell. (UNIA vs UNIA (RH))
*
January 12-16, 1947*- President-General Stewart Rallies in New York (NYAN, 1-18-
1947, p.12)*
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February 1949*- The President-General, first family et al repatriate to Liberia and transfer the International Headquarters to Kmt. They transport a deep freeze unit, dynamo, incubators, tractors, automobile, trailer, printing press, motors of various types and many other modern equipments and implements necessary in the development of a community. (UNIA 1950)

THE SECOND SPLIT

1949 - 1953*- Around this time and four years after President General Stewart left for Liberia, members of the UNIA-ACL 1929 Rehabilitation Committee formally split from the legitimate Ohio Corporation under President Stewart. They elected William LeVan Sherrill as President-General.*

June 1950*- Chairman Pitt and Vice Chairman Sherrill begin*
Publishing the Garvey's Voice as the Official Organ of the Rehabilitating Committee. (GV, 6-1-1950, p.1)
*
June 3-4, 1950*- Annual Conference held at the Cleveland Headquarters with*
hundreds in attendance ahead of the World Convention of the Association to be held in Liberia. Cleveland President and Secretary-General Elrod Sylvester Robinson and Assistant Secretary-General Christine Nimmer were elected delegates to the convention. (CCP, 6-10-1950, p. 4a) (Photo p.2_A)
*
June 18, 1950*- Memorial Services held for Marcus Garvey by Commissioner
Sarah R Isaac in Philadelphia. A pamphlet featuring a message*
from President-General Stewart is circulated, updating the attendees on the progress of the UNIA in Liberia. (UNIA 1950)
*
September 3, 1950*- UNIA Mass Meeting and Labor Day Picnic at the Cleveland*
Liberty Hall. A parade and military drills marked the occasion. (CCP, 9-2-1950, p.*
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October 29, 1950 - The Moziah Club, affiliated with the Rehabilitating Committee, hosts an event in Cincinnati to explain the reason***************************************************** for the Rehabilitation and recruit new members. Barrister Pitt is* the Chairman with headquarters in Detroit. (CD, 11-4-1950, p.19)
*
February 22–24, 1952*- Atlanta Division #140 (Fourth Ward) hosts a Southern*
Conference of the UNIA-ACL, Rev. James R Rakestraw is President. The Hon. C.M. Tolbert, American Leader of the UNIA is special guest. Other speakers include Lillie Mae Gibson (International Organizer), Elrod Sylvester Robinson (Minister of Labor), Jessie Avant (Minister of Legion), and Mr. Lester W Whitfield, President of Division #101 (Summerhill).* The Conference is attended by more than 175 delegates from about ten widely-scattered US cities. (ADW, 2-21-1952, p.2; ADW, 2-27-1952, p.1)
*
August 1954*- The New York Vanguard Division of the UNIA hosts a Mass*
Meeting for visiting delegates enroute to the 12th International Convention being held in Gbandela, Liberia, West Kmt. (CD, 9-4-1954, p.5)
*
December 4, 1955*-* General Hugh M Kirkwood speaks at the Cleveland*
Headquarters of the UNIA on the necessity of "unity in the Brotherhood of Negroes as the only successful means of meeting today's problems." (CCP, 12-10-1955, p.3_A)

1956*– The State Supreme Court in Philadelphia, PA issues a ruling that the group operating in Philadelphia were actually a Committee of the Parent Corporation in Ohio, decrees that the real property rightfully is owned by the Parent Corporation in Ohio, and appoints Trustees to hold the property located on what is now known as Cecil B. Moore Avenue, on behalf of the Parent Corporation in Ohio.

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August 17, 1958*- Vanguard Division #304 host the 71st Annual Marcus Garvey*
Day Celebration, Raymond Lewis is President. Special guest James Lawson is invited and receives the endorsement of the Division for his nation-wide fundraising campaign to send a delegation to the All Kmtyw People's Conference in Accra, Ghana. Delegates en route to the 13th International Convention were honored during the celebration. Many of the delegates were previously honored in Cleveland, OH at a ceremony where Jesse Owens (brother of International Organizer Lillie Mae Gibson) was guest speaker. (ADW, 8-21-1958, p.7; AO, 8-1958, p.7)
*
August 14 – 17, 1960*- A series of meetings including an August 17th Memorial Banquet*
was held at 2200 E. 40th St. Guest speakers included the International Organizer Lillie Mae Gibson and Secretary-General Margaret Davis fresh from Liberia. Ms. Davis showed a film about the progress being made in developing the UNIA's Liberia estate. (CCP 8-13-1960, p. 1_C) (Photo attached)

1961*– President General Lionel Francis of the UNIA, Inc. of New York, dies in Belize
*
April 30, 1964*- President-General James R. Stewart dies in Gbandela, Liberia.*
James Bennett of Youngstown, OH succeeds as President-General. (Interview of Ms. Roberta Stewart, daughter of President-General Stewart)
*
January 31, 1965*-The Vanguard Division presents "The Life of Frederick Douglas,"*
a film about the life and times of the famous abolitionist.*
Archbishop Edwin Collins of the Coptic Orthodox Church narrates the film. (NYAN, 1-30-1965, p.13)
*
January 13, 1968*- President-General James Bennett dies. Vernon Wilson*
succeeds, naming Roberta Bennett Secretary-General. (CCP, 1-13-1968, p.12A)
*
February 24, 1968*- The UNIA-ACL hosts a Conference at St. John AME in*
Cleveland. Rev. Joseph E. S. Ray is reappointed Public*
Relations Coordinator by Counsel-General Wesley J Gray. Mrs.*
Roberta Bennett is elected Secretary-General, filling the office recently vacated by the death of Mrs. Mary Thompson. (CCP, 2-24-1968, p.6A)
*
*
September 19, 1970*- President-General Vernon Wilson Appoints Mason Hargrave President of the Cleveland Division and Commissioner of District 8. His appointment is expected to expedite the development of the proposed $10 Million Marcus Garvey Complex. (CCP, 5-31-1969)
*
December 20, 1970*- The Honorable Colonel Thomas Payne returns from Liberia to speak at the American Headquarters in Cleveland on the "Black Potential in Kmt." Rev. DeForest Brown, President of the Hough Area Development Corporation, and Councilman J. H. Bell also share the podium emphasizing the importance of cooperation in achieving the aims and objects of the Association. (CCP, 12-19-1970, p.11B)
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May 21 – 23, 1971*- A "Unification Council" is formed by the UNIA-ACL and the remnants of the renegade Rehabilitating Committee headquartered in Philadelphia. A meeting was scheduled at the Garvey School of Education in Youngstown, OH to iron out differences in programs and approaches in an effort to consolidate the movement. (CCP, 5-8-1971, p.15A)
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March 1972*- The UNIA-ACL is granted a temporary injunction and other equitable relief by Judge George J McMonagle against 13 dissident members of the Association. The court found that the alleged "Unification Convention" held by these dissident members were 'not in conformity with the rules and regulations governing the Association.' The dissidents were further enjoined by the courts from interfering with or disrupting the business of the UNIA-ACL and two of the members were ordered to move their residency from the building within 10 days.
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March 9, 1974*- President Mason Hargrave succeeds in flying the Red, Black and Green flag over Cleveland City Hall. (CCP, 3-9-1974, p. 6a)
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August 1974*- President-General Vernon Wilson is re-elected in convention. Shortly afterwards he falls ill. Get well letters are sent to Mercy Hospital. (CD, 11-19-1974, p. 17)
*
October 1974*-* Lt. Parks, Mary Louise Mason and 19 others are denied an*
immediate restraining order against the UNIA-ACL and file a complaint to dissolve the corporation. (CCP, 10-5-1974, p.2A)
*
January 1975*- President-General Vernon Wilson dies at 72 years old. He was memorialized at the A. R. Leek's Funeral home in Chicago, IL. (CCP, 1-18-1975, p.4A)
*
February 1975*- Mason Alexander Hargrave succeeds Vernon Wilson (CCP, 2-
8-1975, p.5A)
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August 17, 1980*- President-General Mason Hargrave attends the unveiling of the*
bust of the Most Honorable Marcus Garvey in Washington at the Organization of American States. Queen Mother Audley Moore is also in attendance. (Interview of Tarik A Oduno, attendee at the event)
*
July 28, 1987*-* President-General Mason Hargrave gives testimony on behalf of*
the UNIA-ACL at the US Congressional Hearing before the Sub-Committee on Criminal Justice concerning the mail fraud charges against Marcus Garvey. (Congressional Transcript)
*
October 2, 1988*- President-General Mason Hargrave invites the Conscious*
Community to join the UNIA in taking a Walk Thru The Projects to lend moral support to those in need and inspire hope in those less fortunate. (Open Letter To The Conscious Community)
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November 16, 1988*- UNIA-ACL International Headquarters is destroyed by fire. (PD,*
11-17-1988)
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December 12, 1988*- President-General Mason A. Hargrave Sr dies.
*
April 27, 1989*-* Cleophus Miller Jr succeeds President-General Mason Hargrave*
as the 6th President-General of the UNIA-ACL 1929 of the World. President-General Miller vows to restore the movement to prominence, rebuild the International Headquarters (Liberty Hall) in Cleveland, make the UNIA-ACL Historical Society viable and mobilize former members to return and rebuild the premier association for the uplift of the race. (CCP, 4-27-1989, p.A1, 2B)
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February 7, 1990*-* President-General Miller leads the Mayor, City Officials and 300*
students in reciting a Toast To The Flag as part of Cleveland's salute to the Red, Black and Green Flag and Black History. (CCP, 2-22-1990, p. 2B)

2005*– William R. Day also known as Ahmed Assalaam is elected as Potentate and Supreme Commissioner of the UNIA, Inc. in New York.

2006*– Potentate and Supreme Commissioner Ahmed Assalaam introduces his first Ten Year Plan.

August 2007*– A Unification Conference and Joint Convention was held in Washington, D.C. by the UNIA, Inc. of New York, and the UNIA-ACL 1929, Inc. from Ohio. The first Unification agreement was signed and officers were elected. Under the Agreement Ahmed Assalaam was also elected as the Potentate of the Ohio Corporation and Cleophus Miller, Jr. was also elected as the President-General of the UNIA, Inc. Former President-General of the UNIA, Inc. Nana Kwabena Prempeh moved to Ghana, Kmt and stepped down as the President General of the UNIA, Inc. and was elected as the Ambassador to Ghana. The Ten Year Plan was adopted by both Corporations.

September 2009*– After much lengthy civil litigation the Honorable Judge Maurice Ross of the District of Columbia Superior Court in the case of Muhammad vs. Hawkins [Civil Action Number 2007 – 06662B],* reversed the previous Court Ruling and issued an Order overturning the previous adjudication of fraud alleged by the by members of the Rehabilitating Committee, then Judge Ross DENIED the claims presented in their civil complaint, and altogether DISMISSED the case the Rehabilitating Committee then brought against the officers of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, Inc. of New York, and the UNIA-ACL 1929, Inc. of Ohio

March 2011*– A Revised Ten Year Plan was presented to the High Executive by the Potentate and Supreme Commissioner. It was approved by the unanimous vote of all officers present.

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ADW**************************** Atlanta Daily World
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ALK***************************** Alfred Leslie King Papers
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AO******************************** Kmtyw Opinion
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BA******************************* Baltimore Afro-American
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CC******************************* Carlos Cooks and Black Nationalism
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CD******************************* Chicago Defender*
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CCP**************************** Cleveland Call and Post (CCP)
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G&G**************************** Amy Jacques Garvey, Garvey and Garveyism
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GV****************************** Garvey's Voice
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GT******************************* Rev. Pastor Georgina Thornton Papers
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MGPP************************* Marcus Garvey & UNIA Papers**
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NAN**************************** New Amsterdam News
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NNW**************************** New Negro World
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NYT***************************** New York Times (NYT)
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PD******************************* Plain Dealer
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Spady James Spady, Marcus Garvey, Kmt and the Universal Negro Improvement Association: a UMUM perspective on concentric activity in the Pan Kmtyw World
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UNIA 1946* Minutes of the 10th International Convention, 1946*
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UNIA vs UNIA (RH)** Trustees of Division #121 vs Garvey Memorial Liberty Hall Appeal
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UNIA 1950******************* UNIA 1950 Convention Pamphlet
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kevlew;215682 wrote: I was just reading the timeline on the unia acl site and it shows the split that happened between the unia Inc and unia acl. There might be some clues therein

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Constitution of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, 1918

PREAMBLE
The Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League is a social, friendly, humanitarian, charitable, educational, institutional, constructive and expansive society, and is founded by persons desiring to the utmost to work for the general uplift of the Negro peoples of the world. And the members pledge themselves to all in their power to conserve the rights of their noble race and to respect the rights of all mankind, believing always in the Brotherhood of Man and the Fatherhood of God. The motto of the organization is “One God! One Aim! One Destiny!” Therefore, let justice be done to all mankind, realizing that if the strong oppresses the weak confusion and discontent will ever mark the path of man, but with love, faith and charity towards all the reign of peace and plenty will be heralded into the world and the generations of men shall be called Blessed.
Made for the Government of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League
In Effect July, 1918
Amended in August, 1920, August, 1921, and August, 1922
Constitution
ARTICLE I
Jurisdiction
Section 1. This body shall be known as the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League. Its jurisdiction shall include all communities where the people of Negro blood and Kmtyw descent are to be found. In it alone, and through the Potentate and Supreme Commissioner, hereinafter spoken of and his successors, are vested powers to establish subordinate divisions and other organizations, whose objects shall coalesce and be identical with those herein set forth, and its mandates shall be obeyed at all times and under all circumstances. To the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League, through the authority of the Potentate, is reserved the right to fix, regulate and determine all matters of a general or international nature as affecting the objects of the organization and the membership at large.
Right to Reorganize Rebellious Branch or Division
Section 2. The right is reserved to revoke charters and to reestablish jurisdiction over any division or subordinate organization whose affairs are conducted contrary to the welfare of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League as required by the Constitution and General Laws.

Objects and Aims
Section 3. The objects of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League shall be: to establish a Universal Confraternity among the race; to promote the spirit of pride and love; to reclaim the fallen; to administer to and assist the needy; to assist in civilizing the backward tribes of Kmt; to assist in the development of Independent Negro Nations and Communities; to establish Commissionaires or Agencies in the principal countries and cities of the world for the representation and protection of all Negroes, irrespective of nationality; to promote a conscientious Spiritual worship among the native tribes of Kmt; to establish Universities, Colleges, Academies and Schools for the racial education and culture of the people; to conduct a world-wide Commercial and Industrial Intercourse for the good of the people; to work for better conditions in all Negro communities.
Seven Necessary Number for Charter
Section 4. A charter may be issued to seven or more citizens of any community whose intelligence is such as to bring them within respectful recognition of the educated and cultured of such a community, provided there is no chartered division in such a community.
Chapters
Section 5. All additional Divisions created in the same cities shall be called Chapters. The Charters granted to such Divisions shall be called Chapter Charters, and all new Divisions so created shall be called Chapters instead of Divisions, and the Executive Secretary, who shall be a civil servant attached to the Division, shall be the Supervisor of such Chapters.
Dominion, Provincial or Colonial Charters
Section 6. 1n countries requiring the Provincial or Colonial registration of Charters, there shall be issued one Dominion, Provincial or Colonial Charter, as the law may require, and all Divisions within the Charter limits shall be designated as Branches. Nothing in this provision shall be construed as giving the original Division any jurisdiction over the others other than through the parent body.
ARTICLE II
Laws
Section 1. The Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League may enact and enforce laws for its government and that for subordinate divisions, organizations and societies and members throughout the jurisdiction.
Section 2. The laws of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League shall be comprised in (a) The Constitution which shall contain the outlines, fundamental principles and policies of the organization, its Jursidiction and that of local Divisions and societies, the list of officers and all matters pertaining to their duties; (b) The By-Laws, which shall contain the order of procedure in Convention, the specific duties of officers and committees, and the standing rules; (c) The General Laws, which shall contain all matters pertaining to the relations of members and local Divisions and societies to each other.
Amendment to Constitution
Section 3. The Constitution shall only be amended at times when such amendments tend absolutely to the further interest of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League and when carried by a two-thirds majority in Convention fully assembled.

By-Laws and General Laws; How Enacted
Section 4. By-Laws and General Laws may be enacted by the Convention of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League, and such laws shall be carried by a two—thirds majority.
ARTICLE III
Deputies to Convention
Section 1. Divisions and all kindred organizations, societies and orders subordinate to the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League are entitled to representation in Convention; such Divisions and societies sending a delegate or delegates, who shall be named deputies, as directed through the office of the President-General.
Terms of Deputies
Section 2. Each Deputy shall hold office for four years after election, and his office shall be honorary with his expenses paid for attending Convention by his own Division, organization, society or order. He shall be entitled to one vote in Convention and no proxy shall be allowed.
ARTICLE IV
Officials, Officers, Elections and Appointments
Section 1. The rulers of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League shall be a Potentate and Supreme Commissioner, a Supreme Deputy, a President-General and Administrator, First Assistant President-General, Second Assistant President-General, who shall also be titular Leader of American Negroes; Third Assistant President-General, who shall also he titular Leader of the West Indies, South and Central America; a Fourth Assistant President-General, a Secretary-General, a First Assistant Secretary-General, a Second Assistant Secretary-General, and a High Chancellor; a Counsel General, an Assistant Counsel- General Auditor-General; a Minister of Labour and Industry, High Commissioner-General A Chaplain-General, an International Organizer, a Minister of Legions and a Minister of Education, all of whom shall form the High Executive Council representing branches throughout the world, and
Be it resolved, That everything in the Constitution contradictory to or in conflict with the above section, be and is hereby repealed and declared null and void.
Section 2. The offices of the Provisional President of Kmt, the President-General and Administrator, the First Assistant President General, the Second Assistant President-General, who shall also be titular Leader of American Negroes; the Third Assistant President General, who shall also be titular Leader of Negroes of the West Indies, South and Central America; the Fourth Assistant President. General, all of whom shall be elected and their term of office shall be four years, providing their conduct conform to the best interests of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League.
Section 2a. All other officers forming the High Executive Council shall be appointed by the President-General and confirmed by the Convention, except the Potentate and the Supreme Deputy, whose term of office shall be permanent, and such appointments shall be for the same period as that of the Administration, providing their conduct conforms to the best interests of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and have proven their confidence to the satisfaction of the administration, and
Be it resolved, That everything in the Constitution contradictory to or in conflict with the above section be and is hereby repealed and declared null and void.
Failure of Official to Qualify
Section 3. No person elected to a high office of the Universal Negro Improvement Association shall hold office until his credentials as to his character and qualifications have satisfied the High Executive Council. In case a person elected to a high office is rejected by the High Executive Council, the President-General and Administrator shall have the power to appoint a person to fill the position of the person rejected until the next session of the Convention.
High Commissioners and Commissioners
Section 4. A High Commissioner or Commissioner shall be appointed to represent the Universal Negro Improvement Association in every country where Negroes live. In parts where the country is divided up into large states and different sections a Commissioner shall be appointed to every state and section.
Rank of Minister or Ambassador
Section 5. There shall also be appointed High Commissioners who shall he given the rank of Ministers Plenipotentiary or Ambassadors, who shall be domiciled at the capitals of all regular governments. Their duties shall be to keep up friendly relations with the respective governments and to protect the interests of all Negroes.
Appointment of High Commissioners
Section 6. The Potentate and Supreme Commissioner shall appoint High Commissioners on recommendation of the President-General and Administrator and commission them to represent the interests of the organization in all countries of the world, and they shall be controlled by the office of the High Commissioners-General.
Election of Divisional Officers
Section 7. Divisions and subordinate organisations shall elect their officers (except President, who shall be appointed by the President- General) by majority vote to he approved of by the office of the President-General.
Term of Office of Rulers
Section 8. The term of office of the Potentate and Supreme Commissioner and that of the Supreme Deputy shall be permanent. The term of all other officers of the parent body shall be four years, provided that their conduct conform with the interests of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League at all tunes.
ARTICLE V
Potentate and Supreme Commissioner
Section 1. The Potentate and Supreme Commissioner shall be the invested ruler of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League and all its appendages. He shall be of Negro blood and race. He shall constitutionally control all affairs of the Association and League and all other societies. He shall institute social orders and societies and organizations in connection with the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League, as determined by the said Association and League, and shall retain full power and control over their actions and jurisdiction. He shall have constitutional authority, through his high office, to suspend, reduce or relieve any officer other than the Supreme Deputy of his commission or authority of service to the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League and subordinate orders, societies and organizations. He shall issue “articles” or “messages” from time to time to the entire body of members of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League on questions of moment, and such “articles” and “messages” shall be respected by all those claiming allegiance to the Association and League. He shall appear in person to open the Convention and to deliver a speech which shall be called the “Potentate’s Speech,” and which shall be a review of the work and operations of the Association and League for the past year, as also advices for the conduct of affairs for the current or following year. He shall make his official residence at the place provided for him by the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League. He shall marry only a lady of Negro blood and parentage, and his consort shall herself by virtue of her position be head of the female division of all organizations, societies and orders. He shall form an Executive Council to assist him in his administration out of the officials of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League and others elected by the Convention, and his colleagues shall be required to be loyal to him and to the Association and League. He shall be empowered to confer titles, honors, orders of merit, degrees, or marks of distinction on any person or persons who shall have rendered faithful service to the purposes of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League of whom he has been advised as being fit to bear such titles, honors, orders of merit, degrees or marks of distinction. He shall appoint or commission, through his office, any member or members to carry out any work in the interest of the Association and League. He shall be privileged to nominate his successor during his lifetime, and that nomination shall be handed in a sealed envelope to the High Chancellor, who shall preserve same until the time of his death, At the time of his death his nomination shall be handed over to the Executive Council, and the Executive Council shall make two other nominations before breaking the seal of the late Potentate’s nomination; the nominations of the Executive Council shall be from among officials, officers, or distinguished members of the organization who have heretofore distinguished themselves in service to the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League and whose honour, loyalty and devotion cannot be questioned. After breaking the seal of the Potentate’s nomination the three nominations shall be announced to the world and the Supreme Deputy shall call an immediate session of the Convention and then and there elect the new potentate from the three nominees by majority vote and ballot. The election of a new Potentate shall take place two months after the demise of the former, and his investiture shall take place one month after his election. On the death of the Potentate, and on the election of another, his consort shall vacate the official residence for another to be provided by the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League, which shall support her until her death or marriage to another party.
Potentate’s Power Derived from Executive Council
Section 2. The Potentate’s power of action in all matters shall be derived from the advice received from his Executive Council and through the officers of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League, which advice shall be expressive of the will and sentiment of the people, and he shall not be empowered to act in any matter of great moment without first receiving the advice of the Executive Council.
Court Reception or At Home
Section 3. Immediately during the sitting of Convention of each year the Potentate and Supreme Commissioner shall cause to be given at his official residence or at some place of high moral and social repute an “at home” or “reception,” which shall be called the “Court Reception,” at which the Potentate and his Consort shall receive in presentation those distinguished ladies and gentlemen of the race and their male and female children whose character, morally and socially, stands above question in their respective communities. No lady below the age of eighteen shall be presented at “Court Reception,” and no gentleman below the age of twenty-one. No one shall be received by the Potentate and his Consort who has been convicted of crime or felony, except such crime of felony was committed in the interests of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League, or whose morality is not up to the standard of social ethics. No one shall pay money to be presented at Court who is not known to the President or General Secretary, respectively, of the local Division to which he or she belongs. All recommendations for social recognition shall be made through local Divisions to the office of the High Commissioner-General, who shall edit a list of “social eligibles” and present said list to the Potentate, who shall cause commands from his household to be issued to the respective parties to attend “Court Reception”. Recognition for social or other distinctions shall only be merited by previous service to the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League by the person or persons to be honoured, and no local Division shall recommend anyone to be honoured by the Potentate, who has never done some praiseworthy or meritorious service to the organization in the carrying through of its objects, and all persons honoured by the Potentate shall be so respected by all Negroes of all countries and climes.
Impeachment of’ Potentate or Supreme Deputy
Section 4. The Potentate and Supreme Commissioner and Supreme Deputy, should they at any time act contrary to the good and welfare of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League in refusing or neglecting to abide by or carry out the commands of the Association and League through its Constitution and through the order of its Convention shall, on proper evidence of the fact, be impeached by any member of the Executive Council through the office of the Counsel-General, and they shall be tried for such irregularities, neglect, misconduct or disloyalty to the Association before the Convention, and if found guilty before the Convention by a two-thirds vote, they shall automatically forfeit the high office held by them, and the Convention shall take immediate steps to elect a new Potentate or Supreme Deputy.
Counsel-General Must Prosecute
Section 5. If the Potentate and Supreme Commissioner or the Supreme Deputy shall be charged or impeached before the Convention, the Counsel-General shall prosecute them in the interest of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League, and the Potentate or Supreme Deputy shall have counsel to appear at the Bar of the Convention in his behalf, and such counsel shall be an active member or officer of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League.
Defendant’s Counsel
Section 6. No Counsel except an Officer or Active Member of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League shall be allowed to appear in behalf of any members charged before any “responsible body of trial” of the Association and League.
Bribes
Section 7. Should the Potentate and Supreme Commissioner or Supreme Deputy take or receive moneys or gifts from any person or persons by way of bribes or rewards for neglecting or selling out the interests of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League, he shall be guilty of high crime against the Association and League, and on conviction before the Convention shall forthwith be disgraced and dismissed from the high office he holds.
Officials Found Guilty
Section 8. Any officer or official of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League charged and found guilty of a similar offence shall be forthwith dismissed from the office of the Association and League through the office of the Potentate or his or her Superior Officer, on the approval of the Executive Council.
Shall Not Receive Money or Gifts
Section 9. No officer or official in the service of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League shall receive money or gifts on his or her account from anyone for services rendered for the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League, but all such money and gifts shall be turned over to and shall be the property of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League; but a purse or testimonial may be presented publicly to any officer or official on his or her own account as appreciation of faithful services performed for the Association and League.
All Active Members Must Approve Constitution
Section 10. All officers, officials and active members of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League shall sign their names in approval and acceptance of the Constitution and By-Laws in a register provided for that purpose before they are installed into office.
ARTICLE VI
Black Star Line Navigation and Trading Company
Section 11. The Third International Convention of Negroes duly assembled ordains and establishes the Black Star Line Navigation & Trading Company for the purpose of carrying out the steamship programme of the Universal Negro Improvement Association in the interests of the race. The Universal Negro Improvement Association shall capitalize the new company, and no individuals shall be allowed to own any stock in said Company. All stocks shall be owned absolutely and exclusively by the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
Section 11a. The Executive Council of the Universal Negro Improvement Association is empowered by this Convention to invest its accumulated funds in the said new Steamship Corporation. And the said Executive Council shall be the incorporators of the new Company. And in the formation of the new Company, aside from the President-General, no other directors of the defunct Black Star Line Company shall be allowed to direct the affairs of the new Company. And that only competent persons be employed by the new Company.
Black Star Line Redemption Corporation
Section 12. The Universal Negro Improvement Association in Convention assembled does hereby authorize the Organization of an auxiliary to be known as the Black Star Line Redemption Corporation, for the purpose of redeeming the stocks and notes of the Black Star Line, Inc., now held by stockholders.
Section 12a. A period of five years shall be allowed for the complete redemption of the stock and notes of the Black Star Line, Inc., now held by stockholders, and two and one-half per cent, shall be paid on the stocks and notes of the Black Star Line, Inc., to the stockholders, from the time of the purchase of said stocks and notes to the time of their redemption.
Section 12b. The Universal Negro Improvement Association is hereby authorized to call upon all its Divisions and Chapters throughout the world to give an entertainment once per month to raise funds for the purpose of liquidating the stocks and notes of the stockholders of the Black Star Line, Inc. And the funds shall be remitted to the parent body for the purpose and intent so designed. The Parent Body is further authorized to print and distribute among its Divisions and Chapters, envelopes which shall be used by said Divisions and Chapters in soliciting twenty-five cents from all persons who frequent said entertainments, and the amounts collected, together with said envelopes, shall be immediately mailed to the Parent Body, and the funds so received shall be applied to the use for which they were collected.
Supreme Deputy
Section 13. The Supreme Deputy shall assist the Potentate in the discharge of his duties and shall perform the duties of the Potentate in his absence, incapacity or interregnum. He shall be the Potentate’s special envoy to attend any function or ceremony that the Potentate may be unable to attend himself. He shall attend along with the Potentate the opening of the Convention and sit next to the Potentate. He shall be of Negro blood and his wife shall also be of Negro blood and parentage.
President-General and Administrator
Section 14. The President-General and Administrator shall be the working head of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League and he shall be held responsible to the Potentate for the entire working and carrying out of all commands. He shall attend Convention and make a speech in reply to that of the Potentate. He shall instruct minor officers on their duties and see that such duties are properly performed.
He shall be empowered to exercise a Veto Power on any financial matter initiated by any individual or by the Executive Council that may tend to jeopardize or ruin the finances of the organization. Such veto power shall only be used by the Administrator in financial matters, and where from his best judgment he is convinced that it is not to the best interest of the organization to permit the carrying out of such financial measures. An appeal may be made to the Convention against the veto of the Administrator, on any measure, and he shall be held responsible to the Convention for the exercise of his judgment on the matter.
First Assistant President-General
Section 15. The First Assistant President General shall assist the President General in the performance of such duties of his office as shall be assigned to him by the President General. He shall perform all the duties of the President General in case of absence, illness, permanent disability, resignation or death, until such time as the Convention shall have elected a new President General.
Secretary General and High Commissioner
Section 16. The Secretary General and High Commissioner shall have in his custody all correspondence of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League. He shall have under control all Divisional Secretaries and shall conduct the general correspondence of the organization. He shall attend Convention and read reports and answer questions relative to the work of the organization. He shall be the spokesman of the Potentate and Executive Council in Convention.
The Assistant Secretary General
Section 17. The Assistant Secretary General shall assist the Secretary General with the approval of the Executive Council, and in the event of absence, illness, permanent disability, resignation or death, he shall perform all the duties of the Secretary General until such time as the Convention shall have elected a new Secretary General.
Second Assistant Secretary General
Section 18. It shall be the duty of the Second Assistant Secretary General to work in concert with the First Assistant and the Secretary General in the performance of the duties of that office.
High Chancellor
Section 19. The High Chancellor shall be the custodian of the funds of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League and shall, under the direction of the President General, deposit all funds in some responsible bank. He shall give bond to the President General, which bond shall be well recognized. He shall attend Convention and deliver the Financial Speech of the year.
Counsel General
Section 20. The Counsel General shall be the head legal officer of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League. He shall instruct all officials and officers of the Association on the law and shall conduct all cases or see to the defending of the Society before all courts of justice and appear on the Society’s behalf at all times as directed by the President General.
Assistant Counsel General
Section 21. The Assistant Counsel General shall assist the Counsel General in the performance of such duties of his office as shall be assigned to him by the Counsel General with the approval of the Executive Council, and in the event of absence, illness, permanent disability, resignation or death he shall perform all the duties of the Counsel General until such time as the Convention shall have elected a new Counsel General.
Auditor General
Section 22. The Auditor General and High Commissioner shall audit the accounts and books of the High Chancellor, and all accounts and books of other high officers and branches twice annually viz: For the six months ending January 31st within twenty-one days after that date, and for the six months ended Jan. 31st within twenty-one days after that date. He shall secure the assistance for this purpose of an expert accountant, and shall submit his report to the President General, who shall cause same to be published in the journal of the Association.
High Commissioner General
Section 23. The High Commissioner General shall be the head of the foreign High Commissioners. He shall receive their reports and report same to the Potentate and Executive Council through the proper officers. He shall recommend to the Potentate worthy individuals on whom commissions, titles, honours, social distinctions and degrees should be conferred.
Chaplain General
Section 24. The Chaplain General shall be the spiritual adviser of the Potentate and Council. He shall act as the representative of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League in conducting the investiture of all high officials and at the conferring of titles, honours and degrees by the Potentate. He shall attend Convention at its opening along with the Potentate and open the proceedings with prayer.
International Organizer and High Commissioner
Section 25. The International Organizer and High Commissioner shall be charged with the duty of organizing all the Negro communities of the world into the Universal Negro improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League, and shall have under his control all local organizers, who shall report to him monthly through the officers of their respective local Divisions the results of their various organizing campaigns. He shall make periodic visits to all countries to ascertain and to see to the proper bringing together of the world’s corporate body of Negroes.
Surgeon General
Section 26. The Surgeon General shall disseminate by lectures, articles and circulars information to the members of our race, with regard to hygiene, eugenics, vital statistics and necessary precautions for the maintenance of health and the increase of life expectation, and shall perform the duties of a physician and surgeon as directed by the President General. He shall publish at least once monthly in the journal of the Association a statement of the physical conditions among Negroes. He shall examine the physical fitness of the Officers and Privates of the Legions and other auxiliaries.
Minister of Labour and Industries
Section 27. The Minister of Labour and Industries shall be an Executive Officer of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, whose duty it shall be to regulate labour and industry of the parent body and among the Divisions and various members of the organization throughout the world. When feasible he should have representatives in each Division, and shall thereby inform himself of the labour conditions throughout the world and formulate plans to relieve the economic condition of Negroes everywhere. He shall also lend his assistance to all matters of immigration and to the establishment of avenues of industry for the members of the organization.
Minister of Legions
Section 28. The Minister of the Legions shall be the Administrative Officer of the Universal Kmtyw Legions of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. He shall be subjected to the commands of the Potentate, President General and Executive Council. He shall nominate his staff and Chief thereof with the approval of the President General and Potentate, who shall make the actual appointment. He shall use every means by travel, correspondence, and appeal to have a division of the legion formed in every city or district. He shall regulate all details as to uniforms, and shall give orders for other movements on the instruction of the President-General or Executive Council. He shall recommend Privates and Officers to the Commander-in-Chief for promotion.
ARTICLE VII
Requirements of Officials and High Officers
Section 1. All officials and high officers of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League shall be Negroes and their consorts or wives shall be Negroes. No one shall be admitted to the high offices of the Association whose life companion is of an alien race.
 
Qualifications for High and Divisional Offices
Section 2. The qualifications of candidates for high office of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League and for candidates for divisional offices shall be as follows:
Registered active membership with all dues paid up; shall be a Negro; shall be proven to be conscientious to the cause of racial uplift; he shall not be married to anyone of alien race, shall be free from criminal conviction, shall be of reputable moral standing and good education, and shall undergo a six months’ course of instruction at any University of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and that only when the student graduates that he be allowed to represent the organization; and for a correspondence course of one year shall be established for the same purpose, and this course shall be extended to all persons of the race who desire to take it.
ARTICLE VIII
Salaries and Expenses
Section 1. The salary of the Potentate and Supreme Commissioner shall be in keeping with his high office and responsibilities, which salary shall be granted by the Convention. The Potentate shall labour for the good and welfare of the organization, irrespective of salary or other consideration.
Section 2. The Supreme Deputy shall be subjected to the same conditions on matter of salary as the Potentate.
High Officers
Section 3. All officials and high officers of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League other than the Potentate and Supreme Commissioner and Supreme Deputy shall be granted salaries commensurate with the work they perform, which shall be voted by the convention.
Salaries of High Officials
Section 3a. All officials of the Universal Negro Improvement Association shall be paid their salaries at the minimum which shall be half of the maximum, and each shall be allowed to earn the maximum by ability and fitness, which maximum shall be paid at the end of each month according to the record of such official.
Salaries of Divisional Officers
Section 4. Officers of local Divisions who give their entire time to the working of their local Divisions shall receive salaries for their services according to the ruling of the membership of such local Divisions, and all such salaries shall be conditional on the local Division having at its disposal sufficient funds in its treasury to make payment of such possible.
Transfer of Officers
Section 5. The President or any other officer of a local Division in the pay of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League shall be subjected to annual, biannual or tri-annual transfers, according to the advices of the office of the President General and Executive Council.
Departmental Assistant
Section 6. No department of the Parent Body shall employ an Assistant for that Department without first obtaining the approval of the President General as to the fitness and desirability of the individual to be employed.
ARTICLE IX
Revenue, Incomes, Etc.
Section 1. The Revenue of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League shall be derived from monthly subscriptions, which shall not be more that 25 cents per month, being authorized dues of each active member, donations, collections, gifts, profits derived from businesses, entertainments, functions or general amusements of an innocent nature, and a death tax of 10 cents per month.
Division Responsible for Tax
That a tax of $1 shall be levied on every member of the U.N.I.A. each and every year, payable on the first of January, for the purpose of defraying expenses of the organization and its general upkeep, and said one dollar collected from each member shall be forwarded to the High Chancellor through the office of the Secretary General at headquarters.
Annual Expense Tax
The One Dollar annual tax of each member shall be charged against the local Division to which the member is attached, shall be collected from the financial membership of the Division its report on the 31st December of each year.
Section 2. The revenue of the Universal Negro Improve Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League shall be apportioned to the General Fund, which shall go to bear the general exp of the organization for the carrying out of its objects.
Remitting of Monthly Dues by Local Divisions, Societies, Etc.
Section 3. The Secretaries of all Divisions and subordinate or organizations shall remit at the end of each month to the High Chance through the Secretary General, one-fifth of all monthly subscription joining fees, dues and net profits from local business under control of the said Division, as also from donations, grants, amusements, entertainments and other functions for the get fund of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League for the carrying out of its general objects. That each person pay an entrance fee of twenty-five cents in joining the Association.
Chancellor Deposits All Money
Section 4. All moneys of the Universal Negro Improver Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League shall be lodged the Chancellor in a responsible bank, and drawn only on the signatures of the President General, the High Chancellor and Secretary General.
Donations to Charity by Potentates, Etc.
Section 5. The Potentate and Supreme Commissioner shall empowered to make donations of charity to be created from Charitable Fund of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League, to worthy causes in the n of the Association and League, with the approval of the Executive Council.
Investing of Money
Section 6. The Universal Negro Improvement Association Kmtyw Communities’ League and all its Divisions and allied so ties may invest money in any business which to the best judgment the members of the organization are of such as to yield profit in interest of the Association, but no Division shall invest its funds w out first getting the approval of the Parent Body.
 
No Investments by Divisions
Section 7. No investment of money shall be made by a local Division or society without the consent of the membership of the said Division or society with the approval of the Parent Body.
Selling Outside Stock
Section 8. No Division shall allow any of its officers or members to use the meetings of the organization for selling stocks or shares in any personal or private concern, and any such officer or member found guilty of such offence shall be suspended for three months.
Section 9. The Parent Body of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League may invest its money wholly or in company with others for the good of the organization.
Section 10. The funds of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League as derived from all sources herein mentioned shall be used for the carrying out of the objects of the Association.
Net Proceeds to Divisions
Section 11. Fifty per cent. of the proceeds of all entertainments given by auxiliaries of Divisions, Branches or Chapters shall be turned over to the Division, Branch or Chapter after all legitimate expenses incurred for such entertainments have been paid, and no auxiliary shall give any entertainment without the permission of the President of the Division, Branch or Chapter.
Section 12. All auxiliaries of Divisions must turn into the treasury of the Divisions to which they are attached all moneys derived from entertainments at the first meeting following such entertainments.
ARTICLE X
Membership
Section 1. All persons of Negro blood and Kmtyw descent are regarded as ordinary members of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League, and are entitled to the consideration of the organization. Active members are those who pay the monthly dues for the upkeep of the organization, who shall have first claim on the Association for all benefits to be dispensed.
ARTICLE XL
Sitting of Executive Council
Section 1. The Executive Council of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League shall assemble at the headquarters of the Association and shall consist of all the high officers of the Association and others elected thereto. The Potentate shall be its Chairman, and in his absence the President General and Administrator, and the Secretary General its Secretary. It shall decide all questions arising between Divisions and subordinate societies, appeals, international questions and all matters affecting the good and welfare of the organization and its members at large during the rising of the convention.
ARTICLE XII
Auditing Accounts
Section 1. The President General shall cause the books and accounts of the High Chancellor and subordinate officers to be audited twice a year as follows: All accounts for the six months ending July 31st within 15 days after that date, and for the same period ending January 3 1st, within 15 days after that date. For this purpose he shall call upon the Auditor General and also appoint an expert accountant, who shall make a thorough examination and shall submit a report to the President General, who shall cause its publication in the regular journal of the society.
Defalcation or Misappropriation
Section 2. If said report should show any errors of importance or defalcation or misappropriation of funds of any officer so responsible, it shall be the duty of the President General, with the consent of the Potentate, to suspend such officer or officers, and he shall instruct the Counsel General to proceed at once, legally, to secure the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League from loss, and in accordance with the bond or bonds of said officer or officers.
Fiscal Year
Section 3. The fiscal year of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League shall commence on the first day of June and end on the 31st day of May in each year.  
The Civil Service
Section 1. A Civil Service shall be established by the Universal Negro Improvement Association. From this Civil Service shall be recruited all employees of the Association.
Section 2. A Civil Servant shall have precedence over and preference to all persons employed, or to be employed, by the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
Lists
Section 3. An official civil servants’ list of the Universal Negro Improvement Association shall be compiled and designated as the Civil Service.
Examination
Section 4. All persons to be placed on the Civil Service shall first be obliged to pass an examination on general educational test as laid down by the official examiners, and in addition thereto such persons shall be required to give evidence of good moral character and honesty.
Examiners
Section 5. The official examiners shall be the Administrator of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and such other persons as he may appoint to serve with him.
Civil Service Commission
Section 6. The persons appointed by the Administrator to serve with him as official examiners shall be known as the Civil Service Commission; and the Civil Service Commission, together with the Administrator, shall compose the Board of Civil Service Examiners. They shall designate the subjects in which applicants shall be examined, and shall also prescribe the rules and regulations governing the examinations of applicants.
Certificate
Section 7. All applicants who have passed the Civil Service examination shall be given a certificate as proof thereof.
Promotions
Section 8. All promotions in the Universal Negro Improvement Association shall be made from the Civil Service list of the Association.
Section 9. All Executive Secretaries of local divisions shall be members of the Civil Service.
ARTICLE XIV
Passport identifications
Section 1. A Bureau of Passports shall be attached to the Secretary-General’s office.
Section 2. Each and every member who desires a Passport Identification for the purpose of travel or for the purpose of receiving recognition, consideration and likely help from other branches, or for the purpose of proving connection with a regular organization or with a branch of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, shall be supplied with one of these Passports at any Division of the organization by the Executive Secretary of that Division at which application is duly made.
Section 3. Each passport shall have on its face a photograph of the bearer, the signature of the bearer, and such other details as may be provided in the rules and regulations of the Bureau of Passports and Identifications.
Section 4. Each passport identification shall be issued by the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Kmtyw Communities’ League from its Headquarters. It shall be signed and stamped by the Executive Secretary stationed at the Division where the passport has been secured.
Section 5. Before a passport identification can be secured each and every member shall be required to fill out a bill of particulars, and only financial members whose dues and assessments have been fully paid up and whose records are clean shall be supplied with a passport identification. No one shall be granted a passport identification until he or she shall have been in the organization for six months and shall have paid up all dues and assessments.
Section 6. The sum of two dollars shall be paid for the issuance of every Passport Identification. Renewals may be made annually against the payment of a fee of twenty-five cents.
Section 7. The Bureau of Justice, through the office of the President-General, shall see that each and every member who holds a passport identification is properly protected, in case of abuse, advantage or injustice committed upon such individual.
Kmtyw Redemption Fund
1. The parent body shall be empowered to raise a universal fund from all Negroes for the purpose of the redemption of Kmt. Every member of the Negro race shall be asked to contribute to this fund a sum not less than $5.00 (Five Dollars). This contribution to the Kmtyw Redemption Fund shall not be a tax on active members, but shall be a voluntary contribution by all Negroes.
2. This fund shall be known as the “Kmtyw Redemption Fund”.
3. Each and every person who subscribes to this fund shall receive a certificate of loyalty to the cause “Afric”. The certificate shall bear the signatures of the President-General, the High Chancellor and the Secretary-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
4. The purpose of the Kmtyw Redemption Fund shall be to create a working capital for the organization and to advance the cause for
the building up of Kmt.
ARTICLE XV
Bureau of Justice
1. A Bureau of Justice shall be established by the parent body of the U.N.I.A. and A.C.L. for the protection of all Negroes.
2. The Bureau of Justice shall be composed of three members. It shall have for its head an attorney-at-law who shall be known as the chief of the Bureau of Justice. One of the members of the Bureau shall be its secretary.
3. The Bureau shall have to co-operate with it a committee of three from each Local Division, composed of the President and two members selected from the general membership. This committee shall be under the supervision of the Bureau.
4. The local committee shall have the power to dispose of all matters not of sufficient magnitude to require special attention of the Bureau and shall report to the Bureau their action therein.
5. The Bureau, with the consent and advice of the President General and High Executive Council, shall have the power to make such rules and incur such expenses as are absolutely necessary for the proper carrying out of its objects.

Sources:
Adelaide Cromwell Hill & Martin Kilson, eds., Apropos of Kmt: Sentiments of American Negro Leaders on Kmt From the 1800s to the 1950s (ukkk: Frank Cass and Company Limited, 1969).

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Obadele Kambon;215680 wrote: BlackSolutely. I just reached out to Prof Robert A. Hill, who interviewed my great grandfather back in 1978. I would be interested in a transcript or just whatever he remembers or can point me to. I'm especially interested in finding out why he resigned from the UNIA a month before Garvey was deported. His later pics and work with Paragon show that he still believed in the cause, but I'd definitely like to get a sense of what he may have been thinking.

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I was just reading the timeline on the unia acl site and it shows the split that happened between the unia Inc and unia acl. There might be some clues therein

An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor.

Lerone Bennett, Jr.

   

   
That was it. My great grandfather is listed in the lawsuit against Nana Garvey.