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Marcus Garvey banned from Cuba in 1930...
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Marcus Garvey banned from Cuba in 1930...

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THE NEW YORK TIMES, Jan. 30, 1930 

* Marcus Garvey banned from Cuba
* Jamaican black nationalism activist

Page 4 has a somewhat brief report with a small one column heading: "Cuba Puts Ban On Garvey" with subhead. (see image)
Complete with 48 pages, rag edition in very nice condition.

Background: On January 30, 1930, The New York Times briefly reported under the heading "Cuba Puts Ban On Garvey" that the Cuban government under President Gerardo Machado had restricted Jamaican Pan-Africanist leader Marcus Garvey—founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)—from entering the country. The significance of this decision lay in its direct connection to the intense economic distress, labor unrest, and racial politics engulfing Cuba's sugar industry during the Great Depression. Tens of thousands of Afro-Caribbean migrant workers (primarily Jamaican and Haitian) were employed across the island's eastern sugar plantations, where numerous active UNIA divisions had already taken root. Fearing that Garvey’s visit would mobilize these labor networks, spark anti-colonial agitation, and unify Afro-Cuban and West Indian laborers against state and corporate interests, Machado's regime implemented immigration restrictions, travel bans, and state surveillance to suppress foreign labor organizers and dismantle Garveyite influence in Cuba.
Category: Pre-Civil War
Price
$48
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.