John Henrik Clarke Quotes
When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey's avocation of African redemption and the restoration of the African state's sovereign political entity in world affairs was still a dream without fulfillment.
Clarke, John Henrik, editor. Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa. Vintage Books, 1974, p. 3.
The Negro World, Garvey’s Newspaper, was the country’s largest Black newspaper. The statement brought great distress to white Europe whose colonial interests were threatened.
In 1967 Carmichael left SNCC and joined the more militant Black Panther movement adn organization. But two years later, he became disillusioned with them and emigrated to Guinea in West Africa to promote African Unity and socialism. He was not very successful in in achieving either of these objectives in Africa.
He was an Army Major at the time he wrote this article. In 1966 his positive view of Britain was overwhelmed by the anti-colonial fervor that existed in much of Africa.
John Henrik Clarke was an American historian, professor, and pioneer in the creation of Pan-African and Africana studies and professional institutions in academia starting in the late 1960s.
