# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marcus-garvey
# Generated: 2026-08-31T21:26:38.979Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/marcus-garvey"
name: "Marcus Garvey"
slug: "marcus-garvey"
description: "Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. was a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa. Garvey was ideologically a black nationalist and Pan-Africanist. His ideas came to be known as Garveyism."
tagline: "Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur (1887-1940)"
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birthDate: "1887-08-17"
deathDate: "1940-06-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
  category: 121
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump