Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

By: Marcus Garvey

Narrated by: Yosef Kent

One of the most important and controversial figures in the history of race relations in America and the world at large, Marcus Garvey was the first great black orator of the 20th century. The Jamaican-born African American rights advocated dismayed his enemies as much as he dazzled his admirers. Of him, Martin Luther King, Jr., said, “He was the first man, on a mass scale and level, to give millions of Negroes a sense of dignity and destiny, and make the Negro feel that he was somebody.”

A printer and newspaper editor in his youth, Garvey furthered his education in England and eventually traveled to the United States, where he impressed thousands with his speeches and millions more through his newspaper articles. His message of black pride resonated in all his efforts. This anthology contains some of his most noted writings, among them “The Negro’s Greatest Enemy”, "Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World", and "Africa for the Africans", as well as powerful speeches on unemployment, leadership, and emancipation.

Essential listening for students of African American history, this volume will also serve as a useful reference for anyone interested in the history of the civil rights movement.

©2020 MGA (P)2020 MGA

The proto-Malcolm X

Honestly I kinda wish there were more Biopics about this man like yes he had some controversial views but my goodness Malcom X was a member of the UNIA and it’s shows like some of Gravey writings would feel right at home in an X speech and it’s also shows how in each civil rights movement there are two men with different opinions like Du Bois vs Gravey is very similar to X vs King

the reading was more mechanical than performances

I feel the narrator seem too mechanical, I was hoping at least to have a person with a Caribbean accent.

Black Speakers for Black Reads

Consider a black reader. I couldn’t get through the first chapter. It’s definitely a turn off, I wanted to listen to the collection but the reader sucks

Narrator ruins the book

I am not sure but it feels like the narrator is AI. I honestly hope that it is because there is no other excuse for the soulless inflection and mispronunciations