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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

WASHINGTON DC, USA— A plaque will be unveiled in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 25 to honour Jamaica’s first National Hero Marcus ... ACL), Garvey built the largest mass movement of Black people ...