BLACK STAR LINE
AIRED: Season 3, Episode 2; Season 4, Episode 8
THE DETECTIVES: Tukufu Zuberi and Elyse Luray
THE PLACE: Williamaston, North Carolina
THE CASE:
A woman recently found two Black Star Line stock certificates, which had been purchased by her great grandfather in 1919.
She didn't know the significance of the documents, but what looked like a Marcus Garvey signature on the papers saved them from the trash bin.
Garvey founded the Black Star Line steam ship company through his United Negro Improvement Association in 1919.
Could this certificate be a rare artifact from Garvey's heyday?
History Detectives heads to New York and North Carolina to learn more about this controversial and enigmatic figure who fought for economic self-reliance and political self-determination for African -Americans.
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