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  1. 3 days ago · 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.

  2. Jun 10, 2024 · One of the twentieth century's most prominent leaders in Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism, Marcus Garvey died on June 10, 1940 in London at age 52. Garvey was the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. He was born on August 17, 1887 in Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica.

  3. Jun 17, 2024 · Among the more-important Pan-Africanist thinkers of the first decades of the 20th century was Jamaican-born Black nationalist Marcus Garvey. In the years after World War I, Garvey championed the cause of African independence, emphasizing the positive attributes of Black people’s collective past.

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  4. 3 days ago · Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem, renamed in 1913 after the Jamaican and Black pan-nationalist, immortalizes Garvey into the public space of New York City. This area, known as Snake Hill during the...

  5. Jun 12, 2024 · The roots of Black nationalism can be traced to Marcus Garveys Universal Negro Improvement Association of the 1920s. Many adherents to Black nationalism assumed the eventual creation of a separate Black nation.

  6. Jun 11, 2024 · "Marcus Garvey was a towering black revolutionary. Inspiring countless leaders with millions of followers, Garvey’s legacy lives on today."Richard Sudan for ...

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  7. Jun 23, 2024 · Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) was one of the most brilliant, charismatic, and controversial Black leaders of the early 20th century, and a principal figure in the Pan-African movement. This lesson looks at his rise to power, from his early life in Jamaica, where he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (U.N.I.A.); through his migration to the United States and the rapid expansion of ...