Although Garvey had, overnight, created the largest mass organization in Afro-American history, it crumbled almost as quickly as it had been built.

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-American history.

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-American history.

RAYFORD W. LOGAN, in his book The Betrayal of the Negro described the turn of the century as the low point in Afro-American history.