Marcus Mosiah Garvey
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Marcus Mosiah Garvey (August 17, 1887 – June 10, 1940) was a publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, orator and proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements.
He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). He founded the Black Star Line, which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands. His second wife, Amy Jacques Garvey, was one of the pioneering Black women journalists of the 20th century. Garvey died in London in 1940.
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Marcus Mosiah Garvey,
one of the greatest leaders African people have produced, was
born August 17, 1887 in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica, and spent his entire life in the service
of his people—African people. He was bold; he was uncompromising and he was one of the
most powerful orators on record. He could literally bring his audiences to a state of mass
hysteria. Garvey emphasized racial pride. His goal was nothing less that the total and
complete redemption and liberation of African people around the planet. His dream was the
galvanization of Black people into an unrelenting steamroller that could never be
defeated. I consider myself, along with many others, as one of Garvey’s children.
As a young man of fourteen, Garvey left school and worked as a printer’s apprentice. He
participated in Jamaica’s earliest nationalist organizations, traveled throughout Central
America, and spent time in London, England, where he worked with the Sudanese-Egyptian
nationalist Duse Mohamed Ali. In 1916 Garvey was invited by Booker T. Washington to come
to the United States in the hopes of establishing an industrial training school, but
arrived just after Washington died. In March 1916, shortly after landing in America,
Garvey embarked upon an extended period of travel. When he finally settled down, he
organized a chapter of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities
League. The UNIA & ACL had been formed in Jamaica in 1914. Its motto was
“One God, One Aim, One Destiny,” and pledged itself to the redemption of Africa
and the uplift of Black people everywhere. It aimed at race pride, self-reliance and
economic independence.
Within a few years Garvey had become the best-known and most dynamic African leader in the Western Hemisphere and perhaps the entire world. In 1919 Mr. Garvey created an international shipping company called the Black Star Line. By 1920 the UNIA had hundreds of divisions. It hosted elaborate international conventions and published a weekly newspaper entitled the Negro World.
No other organization in modern times has had the prestige and the impact as the UNIA & ACL. During the 1920s UNIA divisions existed throughout North, South and Central America, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and Australia.
Dedicated to Dr. Kwame Ture and Dr. Tony Martin
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