- Title
- Fred Maynard and Marcus Garvey: storming the urban space
- Creator
- Maynard, John
- Relation
- Exploring Urban Identities and Histories p. 153-160
- Publisher
- AIATSIS Research Publications
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- This chapter seeks to examine the impact of Australian Aboriginal and African-American political revolt in the early decades of the twentieth century in relation to the city and urban space. In the United States the aftermath of the civil war witnessed a mass movement of black people from the rural environment to the city in search of better opportunities. These dreams of a better life were largely unfulfilled. Although not on a similar scale, the movement of Aboriginal people to the city in the early decades of the twentieth century allowed them to escape from the clutches of the New South Wales Aborigines Protection Board. It also, importantly, provided opportunities for contact with international black visitors and with the political manifestos and ideology they carried with them. Fred Maynard in Australia and Marcus Garvey in the United States both utilised the press and city space to challenge and inform the wider public of the intolerable disadvantage, racism, prejudice and oppression that confronted their peoples.
- Subject
- Fred Maynard; Marcus Garvey; Australian Aboriginal political revolt; Indigenous rights
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1339365
- Identifier
- uon:28238
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781922102188
- Language
- eng
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