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unusual facts about Universal Negro Improvement Association



Cleo Miller

In 1988 Miller succeeded Mason Hargrave as President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association founded by Marcus Garvey.

United Black Association for Development

UBAD also found itself under fire from many of the established groups uncomfortable with its message of Black Power; the local unit of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) stopped renting them its Liberty Hall in August 1969 under pressure from the government.


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George Alexander McGuire

Rev. McGuire has previously served for several years as the Chaplain of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA), an organization founded and led by Marcus Garvey.