Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement ... The U.N.I.A. incorporated the Black Star Line in 1919. The line's flagship, the "S. S. Yarmouth," made its maiden voyage in November and ...

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 ...

When Marcus Garvey first arrived in the United States ... They believed that his plans for black progress, including the Black Star Line and the establishment of a pan-African empire, were ...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced ... Factories Corporation and the Black Star Line (1919), as well as a chain ...

President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s.

Garvey, a black nationalist and Pan-Africanist from Jamaica, became the face of a "Back to Africa" movement and Black separatist views after he began the UNIA in New York.