...cause significantly. Certainly Garvey was provoked. To give but two examples, Du Bois described him as "a little, fat black man, ugly, but with intelligent eyes and big head," who was "the most dangerous enemy of the Negro race in America and the world . . . either a lunatic...

...DuBois, himself the subject of so much of Garvey 's contempt, retaliated by describing his tormentor as "A little, fat black man, ugly, but with intelligent eyes and big head."2 In DuBois' eyes Garvey was a dangerous demagogue, "dictatorial, domineering, inordinately vain...

...character bound to evoke fresh memories of Eugene O'Neill's Emperor Jones or vaudeville's Bert Williams: "A little, fat black man, ugly, but with intelligent...military uniform of the gayest mid-Victorian type." Amid the epaulettes, plumage, and swirling capes, and "in the presence of a thousand or more applauding...

...life exemplified the power of white racism and mulatto snobberv to cripple the black soul. Garvey, a "little, fat black man, ugly but with intelligent eyes and big head," was little more than "a demagogue, a blatant boaster, who with monkeyshines was deluding the people"; Garveyism...

...incarceration and deportation on charges of mail fraud were well documented. Du Bois thought Garvey a "little, fat black man, ugly, but with intelligent eyes and big head [who was] the most dangerous enemy of the Negro race in America and the world."91 Frazier thought that...

...easily be taken possession of."51 The classist, chauvinist and racially charged descriptions of Garvey ("A little, fat black man, ugly but with intelligent eyes and big head"52) reveal DuBois' investment in Afri-US elite domination of mass-popular politics, color prejudice,...

...hoping for, but the organisation, along with Garvey, was left reeling.54 NOT TO MENTION HIS COLOUR A little fat black man, ugly but with intelligent eyes and big head, was seated on a pink platform beside a throne. WE B Du Bois, 'Back to Africa', Century Magazine, 192.3 ON his way to...

...Du Bois's article "Back to Africa," in which he offered the following description of Marcus Garvey: "A little, fat black man, ugly, but with intelligent...type, heavy with gold lace epaulets, plume, and sword" (Century, February 1923, p. 539). 2. While Du Bois served on the board of directors and was director...

...Voices from Within the Veil [New York: Harcourt, Brace & Howe, 1920], pp. 5^9)2. Du Bois had written: There was a long, low unfinished church basement,...was seated on a plank platform beside a "throne.". . . It was designed as the beginning of a church long ago, but abandoned. Marcus Garvey roofed it over...