The Marcus Garvey Living Archive

Marcus Garvey's writing, the movement's photographs and documents, and recordings of his voice, searchable in one place. Made with Dr. Jewell Humphrey and the Black Star Archive.

Try it at garvey.radicalimagination.xyz/sam. There's also a 30-second demo video, silent with captions.

What's in it

• 618 passages from Philosophy and Opinions (1923), alongside the archive's photographs, documents and Garvey's two 1921 recordings. You can filter by photo, document, audio or quote.
• Anything we wrote is marked "Our note, not Garvey's words." If the archive has no word for a modern term, it says so.
• The same site has a voyage piece, a lesson, an invitation and a VR room.

How it's built

Static pages and a small serverless API on Vercel, with a Postgres-backed manifest. The search runs over the archive's own catalog.

Credits

Black Star Archive × Radical Imagination. Archive and scholarship: Dr. Jewell Humphrey, Black Star Archive. Built by Radical Imagination, a cultural technology studio in Queens.