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Marcus Garvey

Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey, Jamaican journalist and activist, founded Black Star Line (d. 1940)

Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. was a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, 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.

17 August 1887

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