Contents or Abstract: '; “...Pan-Africanism before Garvey -- In search of a career open to talent: the early life of Marcus Garvey -- Garvey and the politics of agitation -- The Black Star Line: business as Pan-African politics -- Black ships, black workers: a sea of troubles -- Garveyism in Africa: improving Liberia -- The twenties: political poverty and economic progress -- The UNIA goes south: Garvey and the Ku Klux Klan -- Violence as racial politics: the murder of James Eason -- The politics of fraud: J. Edgar Hoover versus Marcus Garvey -- Africa again: Garvey, Liberia, and the Firestone Rubber Company -- Ethnic politics as Pan-Africanism: the locals of the UNIA -- Garvey and Pan-Africanism: the last years....”
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Contents or Abstract: '; “...Spock -- Forgotten forerunner before Jackie: Moses Fleetwood Walker (1857-1924) -- Death of a diagnosis: Homosexuality as a Mental Illness (1952-1973) and other defunct diagnoses (Wandering Womb/The Vapours; Consumption, Ague, the Grippe; Left-Handedness; Red Hair; Drapetomania) -- Reputation Assassination: A Story of Three Killings: Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864), Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) and Disco (1970-1979) and other ruined reputations (Eve; Fatty Arbuckle; Richard III; William Shakespeare) -- Forgotten forerunner before AA: The Washington Movement (1840-1860) -- Death of a Brother: Billy Carter (1937-1988) and other black sheep siblings (Branwell Brontë; Seth; Magda Gabor; Gumma Marx; Donald Nixon) -- Death of the entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. (1925-1990) and other one-eyed wonders (Wiley Post; Andre DeToth; Polyphemus; Peter Falk; Hannibal; Tex Avery; Elle Driver) -- Death of a Square: Lawrence Welk {1903-1992} and other victims of the "rural purge" (The Beverly Hillbillies; The Ed Sullivan Show; The Andy Griffith Show; Bonanza; Gunsmoke) -- Death of an Icon: Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) and other famous people commonly confused with each other (Davy Crockett & Daniel Boone; Molly Pitcher & Molly Hatchet; Andrew Johnson, Andrew Jackson; & Stonewall Jackson; Atilla the Hun & Genghis Khan; Hubert Humphrey, Herbert Hoover, & J. Edgar Hoover; Dom DeLuise & Paul Prudhomme; Alan Hale & Nathan Hale; Joan of Arc & Joan Van Ark; Torquemada & Savonarola & Casanova; Norman Fell & Norman Conquest; Gore Vidal & Vidal Sassoon; Alvin Ailey & Beetle Bailey; Nostradamus & Nosferatu)...”

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