[African Americana]: [Universal Negro Improvement Association]:

Listen My Friends!! Sunday July 14th A Big Day at 1611 Columbia Avenue Universal Negro Improvement Association [caption title].

[Philadelphia]: 1963. Broadside, 9 x 6 inches. Overall even tanning, minor wear. Very good. Item #4880

A striking handbill advertising the appearance of Mrs. Gladys Dickson, "wife of the former Minister of Defense, and now Chairman of Ghana Government Supply Commission" at a "benefit dinner and literary program" presented to "the Negro Public of North Philadelphia." The event was sponsored by the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), and included other guests name on the present broadside, including Joseph A. Bailey (Assistant Attorney general of New York), and several musicians who performed at the event. The broadside also names four officials of the United Negro Improvement Association -- A.L. Crawford (Assistant President General), Miss Alma Golden (Secretary General), "Mrs. Coleburn" (Secretary), and Mr. Thomas Harvey (President). The Ghana Division of the UNIA was formed the year the present broadside was printed. According to a letter from the group's secretary to W.E.B. Du Bois (held at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst), the organization was formed "with the sole aim of establishing good relationships with honest and sincere Negroes in the United States of America." The UNIA was first formed in 1914 in Jamaica by Marcus Garvey in order to encourage Pan-Africanism. OCLC notes three institutional holdings for the present work, at Temple, Penn, and Texas A&M.

Price: $250