Records of the British Colonial Office, 1574-1814.

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Records of the British Colonial Office, 1574-1814.

Includes selections from series 1, 5, 23, 28, 37, 42, 71, 101, 110, 117, 134, 137, 152, 188, 194, 217, 245, 260, 314, 318, 323-4, 389-91, and the Colonial Office Library.

533 containers plus 65 oversize.191 microfilm reels.

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Following charges of mail fraud in 1922, Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) leader Marcus Garvey planned a world tour scheduled to begin in February 1923 to counter the negative publicity. Garvey's intentions provoked anxiety among British colonial officials which then put him and other UNIA members in British West African colonies under surveillance. From the description of Universal Negro Improvement Association miscellaneous collection, 1922-1923. (New York Public Libr...