“At the [1923] state fair in Raleigh, North Carolina, [“Back-to-Africa” leader Marcus Garvey] meditated on a favorite theme: Negro lassitude….. Garvey sought to inspire by berating the black audience for its laziness. ‘If I waited for Negroes to convey me from New York to Raleigh,’ he lamented, ‘I would be walking for six months.’ Curiously, […]
