Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL, commonly known as UNIA), through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa.

Feb 5, 2007 · Greatly influenced by Booker T. Washington’s autobiography Up From Slavery, Garvey began to support industrial education, economic separatism, and social segregation as strategies that would enable the assent of the “black race.”

Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) was a Jamaican-born Black leader who organized the first important American Black nationalist movement after World War I. He urged Black Americans to be proud of their identity, and he called for an independent Black economy.

Jan 19, 2025 · WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s. Also receiving pardons were a top Virginia lawmaker and advocates for immigrant rights, criminal justice reform and gun violence prevention.

As did Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey extolled Capitalism and free enterprise as "necessary to the progress of the world." This teaching and his undying opposition to Communism played major parts in motivating blacks to distrust friendly overtures from the proponents of Socialism and Marxism .

Sep 15, 2020 · Garvey was known as the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Formed in Jamaica in July 1914, the UNIA aimed to achieve Black nationalism through the celebration of African history and culture.

Apr 28, 2023 · In June 1923, the United States government charged, tried, and convicted Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940) – National Hero of Jamaica, political activist, and movement leader – of mail fraud for allegedly selling stock of his own shipping and passenger company, the Black Star Line. The courts sentenced him to 5 years in prison.

Jan 19, 2025 · President Joe Biden granted a posthumous pardon to civil rights and human rights leader Marcus Garvey and granted pardons or commuted the sentences of a half-dozen other people Sunday, his...

Jan 20, 2025 · WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) — Caribbean-American Democratic Congresswoman, Yvette Clarke, has welcomed the posthumous pardon of Jamaica’s first national hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, by the ...

Jan 19, 2025 · WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the ...