Although different Black community leaders scoffed at Garvey's final imaginative and prescient of establishing a unified African empire with him as the provincial chief as an egotistical pipe dream, the UNIA and its symbolism provided a foundational channel for grassroots networking and hope for future Black Americans. June 14: Free French leader General Charles de Gaulle returns to France some 4 years after the Nazi occupation despatched him into exile. June 22: The Allies bomb the French metr...