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Marcus Garvey
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr.
Birthday
BirthplaceSt. Ann's Bay, Jamaica
Died
Occupation
Publisher, journalist
Known for Activism, Black nationalism, Pan-Africanism

Garvey, Marcus (Moziah)

(1887–1940) social activist; born in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica. Largely self-educated, he worked as a printer in Jamaica, edited several short-lived papers in Costa Rica and Panama, then founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in Jamaica (1914). In 1916 he moved to New York City, where he established UNIA headquarters and started up the Negro World, a popular weekly newspaper that con- veyed his message of black pride. Launching several other African-American capitalist ventures, he presided over an international convention of black people in New York (1920), where he called for freedom from white domination in Africa. His later life, however, was anticlimatic. In 1923 he was convicted of mail fraud when selling stock in his failed Black Star steamship line, which was launched for maritime trade between black nations; he was sentenced (1923) to a five-year prison term. Other ventures also failed, including an attempt to foster black colonization to Liberia. After his release from prison (1927) he was deported to Jamaica; he moved to London in 1934 and never regained prominence. However, in stirring African-Americans with his message of pride in ancestry and prospects of self-sufficiency, he prefigured a later generation of African-American leaders such as Malcolm X.
The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.
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This biography introduces readers to Marcus Garvey and his vision of pan-Africanism.
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Drawing on experiences of migration and African diaspora, Caribbean-born writer and filmmaker Ishaq Imruh Bakari unfolds his new book of poetry across many places, invoking figures like Marcus Garvey and Stuart Hall along the way.
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The "Age of Garvey" was forged in the difficult period after Marcus Garvey's arrest and the institutional crisis of the Universal Negro Improvement Association & African Communities League, for in spite of "economic insolvency, state-sanctioned repression, and internecine feuding, Garveyites continued to nurture alliances across the African diaspora and throughout the "colored" world, and they continued to imagine their often mundane local politics against the backdrop of world anticolonialism" (p.
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