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Marcus Garvey - Brigadier General L. S. Blackden lectured to the group on the war effort

Time: Apr, 1915

Place: Jamaica

Details: In April 1915, Brigadier General L. S. Blackden lectured to the group on the war effort; Garvey endorsed Blackden's calls for more Jamaicans to sign up to fight for the Empire on the Western Front. The group also sponsored musical and literary evenings as well as a February 1915 elocution contest, at which Garvey took first prize.

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