In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of Black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to West Africa.
In the late 1940s, from her home in Kingston, Jamaica, Amy Jacques Garvey launched an extensive letter-writing campaign to defend the Greater Liberia Bill, which would relocate 13 million Black Americans to West.
In 1937, Celia Jane Allen traveled to Jim Crow Mississippi to organize rural Black workers around Black Nationalist causes.
In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of Black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to West Africa