Marcus Garvey
On Sunday, former President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. Supporters argued Garvey’s conviction was politically motivated and an effort to silence the increasingly popular leader who spoke of racial pride.
Born August 1887, Garvey was a Jamaican political activist, founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL, commonly known as UNIA). He was ideologically a Black nationalist and Pan-Africanist; his ideas came to be known as Garveyism.
From New York City, he embarked on a U.S. speaking tour, crossing 38 states with stopovers at African Methodist Episcopal and Black Baptist churches. Launching the New York branch of UNIA, he declared membership open to anyone "of Negro blood and African ancestry" who could pay the 25 cents a month membership fee. Garvey joined many other speakers who made speeches on the street, standing on step-ladders often at Speakers' Corner on 135th Street in Harlem - seeking to reach both Afro-Caribbean migrants and native-born African Americans. His promotion of black self-reliance and racial separatism drew the attention of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Labeled as being politically subversive, Garvey was added to a watchlist.
Garvey launched various businesses in the U.S., including the Negro Factories Corporation and the Negro World newspaper that circulated not only in the U.S., but also in the Caribbean, Central, and South America. In 1919, he 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.
Unbeknownst to many, he was convicted of mail fraud for selling the company's stock and imprisoned for two years in the United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia. He was deported to Jamaica after his release, settling in Kingston with his wife. There he established the People's Political Party.
Somewhat a controversial figure, he is regarded for encouraging a sense of pride and self-worth among Africans and the African diaspora amid widespread poverty, discrimination and colonialism. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said of Garvey: “He was the first man, on a mass scale and level” to give millions of Black people “a sense of dignity and destiny.” Garvey was also influential to Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders.
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