In the mid-1930s, Celia Jane Allen, a Black woman from Mississippi who had relocated to Chicago, became an active member of the Peace Movement of Ethiopia. Embracing Mittie Maude Lena Gordon’s vision for unifying Black people in the U.S. and abroad, Allen took on a leadership role in the organization. In 1937, she became one of the national organizers. From the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, Allen traveled extensively throughout the South, visiting local homes and churches to recruit new members and advocate the relocation to West Africa. By the end of World War II, she was successful in getting thousands of black southerners to join the movement and embrace Black nationalist ideas.
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