Born August 17, 1887
St. Anns Bay, Jamaica
Died June 10, 1940
London, England
Leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, which preached black pride and advocated a return to Africa
"I saw before me then, even as I do now, a new world of black men, not peons, serfs, dogs and slaves, but a nation of sturdy men making their impression upon civilization and causing a new light to dawn upon the human race."
Marcus Garvey burst onto the African American scene in March 1916. He had come to Harlem, a black neighborhood in northern Manhattan in New York City, to seek financial support for a school he was trying to establish in his homeland, Jamaica, an island in the Caribbean. He soon went on to promote a mass return to Africa by the...
Source: U.S. Immigration and Migration: Biographies, ©2004 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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