Source - Jamaican.Com -  Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), Jamaica’s first National Hero, was the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), the largest Black empowerment movement of the twentieth century. Founded on August 1914 in ...

By Dan Magaziner -  The historian Robert Vinson explores Garvey's influence in South Africa in the 1920s and 1930s. I have had the opportunity to review the College of William and Mary History Professor Robert Vinson’s remarkable new b...

Source - pambazuka.org  This paper deals with the meaning of Mwalimu Marcus Garvey and the Afrikan Revolution in the 21st century. Mwalimu Garvey is without doubt one of the most important figures of the Afrikan Revolution in the last 50 ye...

Source - By Rupert Lewis - This is an excerpt from Rupert Lewis’s Marcus Garvey (University of the West Indies Press, 2017). The book is part of the University of the West Indies Press’s Caribbean Biography series, which...

A race without authority and power is a race without respect." Marcus Mosiah Garvey PART I: INTRODUCTION Marcus Mosiah Garvey was a man that lived a life with a mission. Although his journey may have seemed impossible, his never-ending stre...

Source - Robert A. Hill – University of California, Los Angeles -  Marcus Garvey is regarded as the leader of the largest organized mass movement in black history and the progenitor of the modern Black Is Beautiful revival that reached its ...

Source - Face 2 Face Africa -  In 1920, the late Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr. presented his famous “Back to Africa” program in New York City. The program encouraged the black community living abroad as slaves to return to their homelands ...

African Americans at the start of the 1920s were struggling to overcome racial barriers. W.E.B. DuBois and Marcus Garvey were two influential black political leaders of the 1920s. The two men came from separate backgrounds, which subsequently led to ...

The 1920’s were a period of struggle for African-Americans. Slavery was abolished, but blacks were still oppressed and were in no way equal to whites. However, at this time blacks were starting to make some progress toward racial equality. The Harlem...

Source David Van Leeuwen - National Humanities Center -  http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org - Marcus Garvey and his organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), represent the largest mass movement in African-Ameri...

Source - History Channel  Marcus Garvey was a proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, inspiring the Nation of Islam and the Rastafarian movement. Who Was Marcus Garvey? Born in Jamaica, Marcus Garvey was an orator for th...