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Marcus Garvey
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Born
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr.
(1887-08-17)17 August 1887
St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica
Died
10 June 1940(1940-06-10) (aged 52)
London, England, UK
Occupation
Publisher, journalist
Known for
Activism, black nationalism, Pan-Africanism
Children
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, III (born 17 September 1930) and Julius Winston (born 1933)
Parents
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Sr.
Sarah Jane Richards
Rastafari
movement
Main doctrines
Jah
Afrocentrism
Ital
Zion
Cannabis use
Central figures
Haile Selassie I
Jesus
Menen Asfaw
Marcus Garvey
Key scriptures
Bible
Kebra Nagast
The Promise Key
Holy Piby
My Life and Ethiopia's Progress
Royal Parchment Scroll
of Black Supremacy
Branches
Mansions
in the U.S.
Bobo Ashanti
Nyabinghi
Twelve Tribes of Israel
Festivals
Shashamane
Grounation Day
Reasoning
Notable individuals
Leonard Howell
Joseph Hibbert
Mortimer Planno
Vernon Carrington
Charles Edwards
Bob Marley
Peter Tosh
See also
Vocabulary
Persecution
Dreadlocks
Reggae
Ethiopian Christianity
Index of Rastafari articles
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Pan-African topics
Pan-Africanism
Afro-Asian
Afro-Latino
Colonialism
Africa
Maafa
Black people
African philosophy
Black conservatism
Black leftism
Black nationalism
Black orientalism
Afrocentrism
African Topics
FESPACO
African art
PAFF
George Padmore
Walter Rodney
Patrice Lumumba
Thomas Sankara
Frantz Fanon
Molefi Kete Asante
Ahmed Sékou Touré
Kwame Nkrumah
Marcus Garvey
Malcolm X
Haile Selassie
W. E. B. Du Bois
Muammar Gaddafi
C. L. R. James
Cheikh Anta Diop
Elijah Muhammad
Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Alhaji Alieu Ebrima Cham Joof
Robert Mugabe
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Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940), was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). He founded the Black Star Line, part of the Back-to-Africa movement, which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands.Prior to the twentieth century, leaders such as Prince Hall, Martin Delany, Edward Wilmot Blyden, and Henry Highland Garnet advocated the involvement of the African diaspora in African affairs. Garvey was unique in advancing a Pan-African philosophy to inspire a global mass movement and economic empowerment focusing on Africa known as Garveyism. Promoted by the UNIA as a movement of African Redemption, Garveyism would eventually inspire others, ranging from the Nation of Islam to the Rastafari movement (which proclaims Garvey as a prophet). Garveyism intended persons of African ancestry in the diaspora to "redeem" the nations of Africa and for the European colonial powers to leave the continent. His essential ideas about Africa were stated in an editorial in the Negro World entitled "African Fundamentalism", where he wrote: "Our union must know no clime, boundary, or nationality… to let us hold together under all climes and in every country…"
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