Foundations of Multicultural Education: Marcus Garvey and the United Negro Improvement Association

This article highlights the contributions that Garveyism made to current doctrines of multicultural education. The 1920s movement played a crucial role in African American history and helped to lay the foundation for later African American political and educational movements. Using literature from multiple scholars of multicultural education and primary source documents from the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), theoretical connections are drawn between the paradigm of multicultural education and Garveyism's concerns for the proper education of people of African descent.