Separation From Garvey and UNIA-ACL
By 1932 she broke with Garvey and became first Assistant President General of the rival UNIA, Inc. In the 1934 convention she was elected President of the rival organization.
On November 23, 1941 she died in Saint Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, D.C., at the age of eighty-one years. She was origianlly buried in Columbian Harmony Cemetery in Washington, D.C. Her remains were transferred to National Harmony Memorial Park in Largo, Maryland, when Columbian Harmony closed in 1959.
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