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I am a historian by profession. I did my senior thesis on the Garvey movement during my college days.
Overall, I concept this was an righteous documentary. The DVD is particularly superior as it expounds upon things like Malcolm X’s parents’ role in the Garvey movement, J. Edgar Hoover’s vendetta against Garvey, and it contains two complete speeches from Garvey recorded in 1921, the latter of which states the goals of his UNIA.
As for the controversy, one should not examine a serious documentary aimed for adults to display a historical figure as an idealized, angelic being with no human flaws. Let’s face it, Garvey had his faults and this documentary deals with that. But it also makes it determined that Garvey made a sure impact on many people from the testimonies of people who actually remembered the Garvey movement. Incidentally, in response to one of the previous posters, this DVD DID mention that Garvey created the Red, Gloomy and Green flag.
Next to reading “Murky Moses” or “The Philosophy of Marcus Garvey,” this is a ample introduction for anyone who wants to learn about Marcus Garvey. Eye this, read Garvey’s bear writings, and think for yourself.
Usually, American Experience can counted on to reveal intensely fact-based documentaries. This one does not fit the ususal mode of American Experience product. Apparently, Frankthek didn’t read the other reviews. One is from Julius Garvey, MD son of Marcus Garvey. That review led me to realize that there was more to the tale. I went and did my fill research. It seems that there is a gargantuan deal of bias in the documentary. The documentary doesn’t start where Garvey’s life begins and it doesn’t raze where it ends. But it seems to want to label upon you that it does. Nowhere are there facts presented for the viewer to originate their believe determination. That’s why i explore American experience so remarkable. Normally they expose the facts, without so powerful as a critique. In my fill research I confirmed some of what Dr. Garvey says in his review. The fraud trial originally ended in a hung jury, a fact left out of the documentary. Garvey met up with an expert elocutionist in Henrietta Vinton Davis, who may have been more influential on him than Billy Sunday. Garvey’s second wife, Amy Jacques Garvey was from a well-to-do Jamaican family. Garvey finished his days in London, England; a plaque marks the house where he lived. He was interred in a crypt in England; and his body was brought wait on to Jamaica in the 60’s. This was a very well-known time in world history. Africa was getting its independence, the civil rights movement was taking off. Martin Luther King even laid a wreath at Garvey’s mausoleum during a vacation in Jamaica. I watched this with a few other people and the consensus was the same. It is not the usual standard for American Experience. So many contradictory statements and so minute facts. If anything this documentary will inspire others to go do their occupy research to procure the true facts like I did.
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