Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement ... He left school at 14, worked as a printer, joined Jamaican nationalist organizations, toured Central America, and spent time in London.

Marcus Garvey came to the United States penniless in 1916. In just eleven years, he built the first large black nationalist movement the country had seen. Famed as a public speaker, idealized as a ...

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.

President Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil ...