In August, 1920, at Liberty Hall, Manhattan, a Jamaican Negro, aged 36, with broad nose, and of the true Negro type, was publicly married by 30 officiating clergymen in the presence of 3,000 Negro delegates from all over the world.
He styled himself " Provisional President of Africa, Commander of the Order of the Nile, Distinguished Son of Ethiopia." His name was Marcus Garvey.
Last week, the Federal Government rested its case against this same Marcus Garvey for using the mails to defraud.
Between these two events stands the...
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