Although Garvey had, overnight, created the largest mass organization in Afro-Americanhistory, it crumbled almost as quickly as it had been built.
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Although there has been considerable debate about the number of members in the U.N.I.A., it was clearly the largest mass organization in Afro-Americanhistory.
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Whatever was the actual number of members of the U.N.I.A., the movement gained more grass-roots support than had any other organization in Afro-Americanhistory.
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RAYFORD W. LOGAN, in his book The Betrayal of the Negro described the turn of the century as the low point in Afro-Americanhistory.