... Americans. The Urban League was founded in 1910 with the goal of acclimating recent migrants to the rigors of urban life. Perhaps the most dramatic evidence of the newfound sense of purpose and activism was the popularity of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Driven by the charismatic zeal of Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican who had migrated to New York, captured the grass ... -roots sensibility of the New Negro in much the same way the civil rights movement under the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr., or the presidential bid of Jesse Jackson ... inspired hundred...

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