Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican civil rights activist, the founding father of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), and an owner of the Black Star Line shipping company. In 1923, Garvey ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The quest for a U.S. presidential pardon for revolutionary Black nationalist leader Marcus Mosiah Garvey ...

Jamaican national hero Marcus Mosiah Garvey, who continues to get much respect in the island country and diaspora communities around the world, will be recognized on Aug. 20 at a ceremony in the ...

Marcus Garvey was granted a posthumous pardon by former President Joe Biden on his last full day in office, January 19. The late Jamaican-born activist, who was a prominent proponent of Black ...

Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born in Jamaica in 1887, then still under British rule. He left Jamaica in 1910 to work on the British-owned plantations.

August 17: Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. is born in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica to Marcus Mosiah Garvey Sr., a mason, and Sarah Jane Richards, a domestic worker and farmer. Garvey leaves St. Ann's Bay and ...

WASHINGTON DC, USA— A plaque will be unveiled in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 25 to honour Jamaica’s first National Hero Marcus Mosiah Garvey. The event will take place at the Big Bethel AME ...

When Marcus Garvey died in 1940 the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey's avocation of African ...

Civil rights leader Marcus Garvey Marcus Mosiah Garvey, who died in 1940, was a civil rights leader who influenced pioneer leaders such as Malcolm X and South African President Nelson Mandela.

Marcus Garvey was born on August 17, 1887 into a relatively well-off family in Saint Ann’s Bay, Jamaica. As a teenager, he worked in the print trade and was introduced to trade unionism. When he ...

Amy Jacques, editor, feminist, and race activist, was Marcus Garvey's second wife and his principal lieutenant during his incarceration in an Atlanta penitentiary from 1925 to 1927. Born in ...

For over a century, civil rights leader Marcus Mosiah Garvey was demonized, misunderstood and left to the interpretations of ...