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BY OUR OWN STRENGTH - KENNETH S JOLLY GEBUNDEN

For almost four decades  William Sherrill was a critical leader of Marcus Garvey¿s Universal
Negro Improvement Association(UNIA) and a leading African American intellectual and activist in
1930s and 1940s Detroit. But until now  Sherrill¿s leadership and activism has never been
detailed. As the first biography of Sherrill  this book examines him as part of a historical
tradition from which post-World War II Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism re-emerged.
Sherrill represents a bridge between the African American self-determination of the1920s and
1930s and African American activism from the 1950s through the 1960s. This book explains how
Sherrill carried the UNIA and Garveyism into the post-war period andemphasizes the enduring
traditions of African American self-determination  race-based institution building  economic
and political empowerment  and cultural centering from the1910s through the 1960s. The story of
William Sherrill re-conceptualizes the study of Garvey  Garveyism  and the UNIA. This book
would be ideal for upper-level undergraduate or graduate-level courses in African American
history  the Civil Rights Movement  Black freedom struggle  Black liberation  Black nationalism
pan-Africanism  Detroit history  urban history and urban studies.

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