DETAIL FROM PULLMAN POLITICAL CARTOON
The Messenger, April 1927
James A. Jackson (January 1925, The Messenger)
A. Philip Randolph (August 1925, The Messenger)
A. Philip Randolph (December 1925, The Messenger)
| As far as I've been able to learn, Marcus Garvey was the first
public figure to use "Uncle Tom" as a pejorative term, and his speeches and
other Universal Negro Improvement Association publications and public events
gave wide circulation to the term as a way to stigmatize blacks who betrayed the cause of
their race. "Uncle Tom's dead and buried," proclaimed protest signs at
the parade that opened the UNIA's first convention
in 1920 in New York,* and according to the New York World report
(7 August 1920) in an address to the convention Rev. George Alexander
McGuire declared that "the Uncle Tom nigger has got to go and his place must be
taken by the new leader of the Negro race . . . not a black man with a white
heart, but a black man with a black heart." |
DETAIL FROM PULLMAN POLITICAL CARTOON The Messenger, April 1927 |
James A. Jackson (January 1925, The Messenger) A. Philip Randolph (August 1925, The Messenger) A. Philip Randolph (December 1925, The Messenger) |
