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Black History: Marcus Garvey

Written by on February 4, 2016

MG Quote 2Marcus Garvey was born on August 17, 1887, in Saint Ann’s Bay, Jamaica. In 1914, he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) with the goal of uniting all of African diaspora to “establish a country and absolute government of their own.”

In 1916, Garvey brought UNIA to the U.S in Harlem, NY where he promoted a Marcus Garveyseparatist philosophy of social, political, and economic freedom for blacks. In 1918, Garvey began publishing the widely distributed newspaper Negro World to convey his message. In 1919, Marcus Garvey and UNIA launched the Black Star Line, a shipping company that established trade and commerce between Africans in America, the Caribbean, South and Central America, Canada and Africa. Garvey also started the Negros Factories Association, a series of companies that would manufacture marketable commodities in every big industrial center in the Western  of pride and dignity inspired many in the early days of the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. In tribute to his many contributions, Garvey’s bust has been displayed in the Organization of American States’ Hall of Heroes in Washington, D.C. The country of Ghana has named its shipping line the Black Star Line and its national soccer team the Black Stars, in honor of Garvey.MG quotes


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