Mary Rolinson

Dr. Rolinson is a professor for the history department at Georgia State University and is the author of Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007). Rolinson is currently working on two research projects: One is on Mabel Murphy Smythe, an African American woman who was an expert on economic development and politics in the post-World War II era. Rolinson’s second project is tracing the remains of the Garvey Movement from 1940-1975 through an examination of the Thomas W. Harvey Papers.