Did Marcus Garvey arrange the New Orleans assassination of a political rival?
SLAIN OR SILENCED? Tuesday, March 08, 2005 By James Varney Staff writer Did Marcus Garvey, among the most prominent black leaders of the 1920s, arrange the New Orleans assassination of a political rival? That was the accusation on a mortally wounded man’s lips. The Rev. Dr. James Walker Hood Eason had gone down in a blaze of gunfire after preaching at a Central City church on New Year’s Day, 1923. He died three days later. Sitamon Youssef believes Eason’s accusation against Garvey may well be true. A professor at Florida’s Tallahassee Community College and the curator of the new Eason Civil Rights Museum, she arrives in New Orleans on Wednesday, seeking the final pieces of a puzzle that she said has been too long ignored. If substantiated, her theory is an explosive one. The flamboyant Garvey was in his day as powerful and high-profile as any African-American in the land. Convinced that black Americans would never achieve justice in the United States, he originated and led a “Back to A
