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Additional authors

1. Yard, Lionel M.
2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division

Description

1. 3 audiocassettes

Summary

1. The collection consists of 3audio recordings including Weston recounting the history of Marcus Garvey's movement and his involvement.

Subject

1. Sound recordings
2. Christian sects > United States
3. Back to Africa movement
4. African Americans > Societies, etc
5. African Americans in the performing arts
6. African American dancers
7. African American clergy
8. Black theology
9. African Americans > Religion
10. African American families
11. Universal Negro Improvement Association
12. Weston, Maudelle
13. Weston, George A., 1885-1973

Genre/Form

1. Sound recordings.

Call number

1. Sc MIRS Weston 1982-62

Note

1. Born in 1885 in Green Bay, Antigua, George A. Weston was a minister of the African Orthodox Evangelical Mission and vice president of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), a Black nationalist fraternal organization founded by Marcus Garvey (1887-1940). His wife, known professionally as Maudelle, was a dancer and model. Weston joined the UNIA in 1919 as a member of the Boston Division and by 1924 he was a recognized leader in the movement. He was appointed vice president of the New York City Division of the UNIA, the organization's largest branch, which at its height claimed to have thirty-five thousand members. When Garvey was imprisoned in 1925, the movement began to splinter. In 1926, Weston succeeded Garvey as president-general of the main faction that formed in the New York City Division of the UNIA. After the decline of the UNIA, Weston was ordained in the African Orthodox Church (AOC) by Archbishops Reginald Barrow and Richard Machanna in Brooklyn. He led missionary work for the AOC in Antigua, after serving in World War II. Weston returned to the US in the early 1970s and was recognized for his involvement in the UNIA. In 1971, he spoke at a seminar on the Garvey Movement and the development of Black consciousness at Stanford University, and a Black Arts Festival at Lafayette College. Weston died in 1973 at the age of eighty-eight. Antiguans gave him a hero's funeral in appreciation for his work in their struggle for independence.

Author

1. Weston, George A. and Maudelle, creator.

Title

1. George A. and Maudelle Weston audio collection.

Publisher

1. [1982]

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid for the collection
2. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound

Added author

1. Yard, Lionel M.
2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Research call number

1. Sc MIRS Weston 1982-62