Born: | 17 August 1887 Comment | When did Marcus Garvey die? / Died | 10 June 1940 | How many years did Marcus Garvey live? / Lived | 52 years | Where was Marcus Garvey born? | Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica | Zodiac sign: | Leo |
Marcus Garvey Net worth 2024 (estimated)
| How much is Marcus Garvey worth? | Under review
| Nationality: | Jamaican | Hair color: | Black | Eyes color: | Black |
Marcus Garvey facts
- , ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940), was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a proponent of the Pan-Africanism movement, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL)
- He also founded the Black Star Line, a shipping and passenger line which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands
- Prior to the 20th 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 (some sects of which proclaim Garvey as a prophet
- )nGarveyism intended persons of African ancestry in the diaspora to "redeem" the nations of Africa and for the European colonial powers to leave the continent
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