Overview: Offers the first study of the ideology, influences, and contributions of the UESA and The African.Centers the UESA in the history of Black internationalism, Pan-Africanism, and twentieth-century BlackFrom 1927–1948, the Universal Ethiopian Students’ Association (UESA) mobilized the African diaspora to fight against imperialism and fascist Italy. Formed by a group of educated Africans, African-Americans, and West Indians based in Harlem and shaped by the ideals of Ethiopianism, communism, Pan-Africanism, Black Nationalism, Garveyism, and the New Negro Movement, the UESA sought to educ
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