His imprisonment deprived him of further active leadership in the great organization he had founded. His largest group of followers was located in the United States. and because of his alienation he was powerless to carry on the great movement of repatriation. When we consider that Garveys work was terminated by a court conviction and subsequent deportation. we find cause for discouragement among his followers. However. the chief value of his labors lay in the quickening of a race consciousness and in the birth among his followers of a new hope for racial integrity and Negro nationality. For this service he could not be adjudged in violation of law by any court in the world. while on the other hand he was denominated a benefactor of the human race at the bar of enlightened public opinion. The most significant thing about the achievement of Garvey is that notwithstanding the collapse of his colonization program at the zenith of its popularity. notwithstanding the loss of considerable sums of money invested by the members of his race. notwithstanding his conviction and imprisonment. followed by deportation from the country in which he had established his great organization - notwithstanding all these things and more. the movement he had originated did not die with the passing cf its founder. The longing for economic freedom and progress. the yearning for the establishment of Negro nationality. the burning desire to make secure racial integrity that Garvey had implanted in the souls of millions of AfroAmericans. survived. He definitely succeeded in establishing. the fact that there isan overmastering impulse. a divine afflatus among the mass of Negroes of the United States for a country of their own and a government administered by themselves.
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