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In 1921, Marcus Garvey gave a speech explaining the goals of the UNIA. He emphasized that the group aimed to unite all Africans and relocate them to Africa. This conservative idea clashed with the more progressive ideas calling for an end to segregation and discrimination. This caused cultural conflicts in the 1920s. This excerpt is from a speech that Marcus Garvey recorded in the New York studio in 1921 about what the UNIA stood for. The purpose of this speech was to clarify that the objective of this African-American group was to unify all Africans and send them back to Africa. This speech shows that the Garveyism ideas about African unification and relocation is a conservative idea and not like the progressive ideas that state that segregation and discrimination should be an abolished practice. This conservative idea that has been a common theme throughout the history of African-Americans was a major cause of cultural clashes in the 1920s.