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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. Ideologically a black nationalist and Pan-Africanist, Garvey's ideas are known as Garveyism.
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Born 17 August 1887 · Died 10 June 1940 · Q272504
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“The majority of us may remain here, but we must send our scientists, our mechanics and our artisans and let them build railroads, let them build the great educational and other institutions necessary”
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“antipathy and distrust of anybody but the darkest-skinned Negroes”
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The Washington Post: The inside story of the pardon of Marcus Garvey
Rolling Stone: Joe Biden Pardoned Marcus Garvey. Is It Enough?
Essence: President Biden Posthumously Pardons Revolutionary Pan-African Leader Marcus Garvey
Rolling Out: Renewed hope emerges for Marcus Garvey’s long-awaited pardon
The short film Mosiah became the first narrative film released about Marcus Garvey
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Publishers Weekly: Black Booksellers Launch Petition to Pardon Marcus Garvey
Yahoo: Descendants of Marcus Garvey press Biden for posthumous pardon
Yahoo: Marcus Garvey’s son continues fight to clear his name through presidential pardon
The Jamaican government declared 17 August as Marcus Garvey Day
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Writing that its policy was not to consider requests for posthumous pardons
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The American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates described Garvey as the "patron saint" of the black nationalist movement
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Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller tasked various Jamaican lawyers with investigating how they could assist this campaign
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Awarded National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame (2004).
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A residential estate in Dulwich, London was named Marcus Garvey Mews in commemoration
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The reggae artist Burning Spear released the album Marcus Garvey
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The scholar of African-American studies Wilson J
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Jamaica's government posthumously conferred the Order of the National Hero upon him
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Was posthumously conferred with the Order of the National Hero by the Jamaican government
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His body was returned to Jamaica for reburial in National Heroes Park, Kingston
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Garvey's remains were exhumed and returned to Jamaica
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When Jamaica became independent, the government hailed Garvey as a hero
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(before his reinterment) and relocated after the construction of the monument
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Cronon stated that while Garvey "achieved little in the way of permanent improvement" for black people, he "awakened fires of Negro nationalism that have yet to be extinguished"
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Died 1940-06-10.
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Where his anti-socialist stance distanced him from many of the city's black activists
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The Second Italo-Ethiopian War broke out as Italy invaded Ethiopia
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Edelweiss Park was foreclosed and auctioned off
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“When they wanted to get me they had a Jewish judge try me, and a Jewish prosecutor. I would have been freed but two Jews on the jury held out against me ten hours and succeeded in convicting me, whereupon the Jewish judge gave me the maximum penalty.”
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Garvey told a journalist: "When they wanted to get me they had a Jewish judge try me, and a Jewish prosecutor
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Du Bois described Garvey as "a little fat black man, ugly but with intelligent eyes and big head"
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Garvey was convicted of mail fraud for selling the company's stock, and was imprisoned in the United States Penitentiary, Atlanta for nearly two years
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Sent a message to Valera stating that "We believe Ireland should be free even as Africa shall be free for the Negroes of the world
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Garvey twice reached out to Du Bois, asking him to contribute to UNIA publications, but the offer was rebuffed
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Garvey traveled to the Caribbean aboard a Black Star Line ship, the newly-acquired Antonio Maceo
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Garvey sent a UNIA team to assess the prospects of mass African-American settlement in Liberia
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Became President of the Black Star Line shipping and passenger company, designed to forge a link between North America and Africa and facilitate African-American migration to Liberia
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Married Amy Ashwood in a Catholic ceremony, but they separated after three months
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A young middle-class Jamaican migrant, Amy Jacques, became his personal secretary
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Moved to the United States and established a UNIA branch in New York City's Harlem
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Mohamed Ali began employing Garvey as a writer for the magazine
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Became seriously ill with a bacterial infection and decided to return to Kingston
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Moved to Kingston, where he boarded in Smith Village, a working-class neighborhood
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The printer opened another branch at Port Maria, where Garvey began to work, travelling from Saint Ann's Bay each morning
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Marcus was apprenticed to his godfather, a local printer
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Born 1887-08-17.
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