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Marcus Garvey
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Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur (1887-1940)
Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican-born political activist, orator, and businessman who became a leading figure in the Pan-African movement during the early 20th century. He matters because his ideas about African unity and pride significantly influenced Black political thought and activism worldwide, though his legacy remains complex and debated among historians.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1887
- Died
- 1940
- Works
- 59
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- Aims and objects of movement for solution of Negro problems outlined; asks white race to be considerate and sympathetic, help Negroes to have a nation of their own in Africa. Friendly appeal of Negro for his race
- Philosophy and opinions
- Aims and objects of movement for solution of negro problem outlined ...
- I, Marcus Garvey
- Emancipated From Mental Slavery
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The elder statesman of roots reggae, Burning Spear (aka Winston Rodney) is one of the genre's true greats. For over 35 years he has used music to celebrate the teachings of Marcus Garvey and spread his message of social justice. Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born in St. Ann's Bay, on the north coast of Jamaica, 100 years ago. By the time of the First World War, Garvey had become one of the most original and strident leaders of the black people's movement. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Marcus+G
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Quotes
- “Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for, with God's grace, I shall come and bring with me countless millions of black slaves who have died in America and the West Indies and the millions in Africa to aid you in the fight for Liberty, Freedom and Life.”
- “Our union must know no clime, boundary, or nationality… let us hold together under all climes and in every country…”
- “Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.”
- “We were the first Fascists, when we had 100,000 disciplined men, and were training children, Mussolini was still an unknown. Mussolini copied our Fascism.”
- “We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind, because man is related to man under all circumstances for good or for ill.”
- “If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.”
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Encyclopedic overview
Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. (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. Garvey was ideologically a black nationalist and Pan-Africanist. His ideas came to be known as Garveyism.
Garvey was born into a moderately prosperous Afro-Jamaican family in Saint Ann's Bay and was apprenticed into the print trade as a teenager. Working in Kingston, he became involved in trade unionism. He later lived briefly in Costa Rica, Panama, and England. On returning to Jamaica, he founded the UNIA in 1914. In 1916, he moved to the United States and established a UNIA branch in New York City's Harlem district. Emphasizing unity between Africans and the African diaspora, he campaigned for an end to European colonial rule in Africa and advocated the political unification of the continent. He envisioned a unified Africa as a one-party state, governed by himself, that would enact laws to ensure black racial purity. Although he never visited the continent, he was committed to the Back-to-Africa movement, arguing that part of the diaspora should migrate there. Garveyist ideas became increasingly popular, and the UNIA grew in membership. His black separatist views—and his relationship with white racists like the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in the interest of advancing their shared goal of racial separatism—caused a division between Garvey and other prominent African-American civil rights activists such as W. E. B. Du Bois, who promoted racial integration.
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