"Boardwalk Empire" made a reference to the black leader Marcus Garvey on a recent episode. But it wasn't a tribute that Garveyites would have appreciated.

"Black Moses, The Story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association" by E. David Cronon received an endorsement from the celebrated black historian, John Hope Franklin, who wrote the introduction. The book recounts the career of Garvey, a Jamaican immigrant, who launched one of the largest mass movements of blacks before the Civil...