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The back to Africa movement was primarily about______________?

Correct answer: D. Completing an oppressed people's quest for freedom, liberty and democracy.

  • A. Bringing African culture to the United States.
  • B. Leaving the African peoples alone.
  • C. Writers who took African themes for their work.
  • D. Completing an oppressed people's quest for freedom, liberty and democracy.

Explanation

Garvey's Back-to-Africa programme presented migration and Black self-determination as part of the struggle of an oppressed people for freedom, dignity, and political independence. It was not mainly a literary movement or an attempt simply to import African culture into America.

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