The UNIA was so decentralized that people could write their own rules. The Garveyites were organizing domestic workers in places like Louisiana. And it's not an accent that many of the Garveyites in Harlem and Chicago, when Garvey ism kind of collapsed, ended up joining the Communist Party.
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