Garvey and DuBois-A Race to Nowhere

About the Book

Marcus Garvey came to the United States with a big dream that never came to fruition. With all of his good intentions of taking back the homeland of the Africans, he found that the world just wasn't ready for his radical ideas. One reason that they weren't ready was because of a man named W.E.B. DuBois.

About the Author

This book has been in the making for over 15 years. In working on my master's thesis, I chose a topic that I felt had not been looked at before and that was how these two prominent men of their era used their news organs to attack each other. These men had the same idea in mind and that was to lead the African American people of that time to a positive outlook on life. If they had only worked together there is no telling where the people would have gone. In working on this research, I have come to understand more about Garvey and his dream for Aftrican Americans. Eventhough he did not succeed in his dream, his idea of Africa for the Africans was done with good intentions. I am a professor of English at a prominent university in the great state of Louisiana. This research is very close to my heart in that Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. DuBois have always fascinated me in the way that they went about trying to help the people of their time. They were both strong men with strong viewpoints, but they just went about it in different ways.