Marcus Garvey
Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur (1887-1940) · Founders · Died at 52
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Something wrong?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.
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A statue of Garvey now stands in Saint Ann's Bay, the town where he was born
In London, Garvey spent time in the Reading Room of the British Museum
In 1918, Garvey's UNIA began publishing the Negro World newspaper.
Garvey speaking at Liberty Hall, Harlem, in 1920
A UNIA parade through Harlem in 1920
A certificate for stock of the Black Star Line
The steamship OrionAwards
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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.
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