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when you walk up the street to marcus garvey and martin luther king, those are families that own and will always be there forever and ever. you tell those folks, hey, we're going to make sure the commercial people, not the vbd, not the merchants, we're going to make sure they live up to their responsibility. they are supposed to make sure the doors are open for people to come in and do a lot of events and things. picture this if you would, instead of busses coming in at 5:00, what if you create the traffic there. they are right now in a serious crisis but it's just a block away. everybody is looking for foot traffic. everybody is looking for an opportunity to do things, bring people from somewhere, all you have to do is walk up the street and say for the next 30 days we're going to make sure there's a terrible outrageous discount so you folks can participate because they don't participate. the foot traffic is right there so you change the name, that's like going to fillmore and golden gate street and telling everybody on that block, we're going to name this happy corner. it don't mak

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why does marcus garvey get some much attention in your book? at. >> guest: a good question. the book i wrote before "the political worlds of slavery and freedom" is called the nation under our feet. >> host: it won the pulitzer 2004. >> guest: about african-american politics with slave migration was not sure how that book would end. i also became more and more interested, persuaded by what i saw as a powerful separatist tendency among former slaves. i saw it cropped up in a lot of different ways. then i came across information that garvey's movement that i had never known about. the more i looked, the more interesting it became and garvey build a nationwide movement based not only in northern cities but in the rural and small-town south. there were more garvey chapters than anywhere else in the united states. it is an international movement. one of the things i discovered in this book that as as if finished a nation under our feet "i thought it would be a secondary literature on garvey's movement in the united states. i discovered there was none. there was a lot on garvey hi