Timeline Tuesday 31 August 1920

Events on Tuesday 31 August 1920 1

• 1920 Marcus Garvey Convenes UNIA International Convention Thousands gather in Harlem for Black nationalist congress The Universal Negro Improvement Association held its first International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World in New York, drawing thousands of delegates from across the diaspora. The convention adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World and elected Marcus Garvey as Provisional President of Africa. It marked the high point of Garvey's Black nationalist movement.