During the meeting, a speaker read a letter Garvey had written from jail: “I have been ‘framed ... could see their efforts ...

August 17: Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. is born in St. Ann's Bay ... October 15: George Tyler commits suicide while in jail. November 5: Plans to float a second Black Star Line ship, the "S.

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 in 1916, he quickly found his way to many of New York's most prominent black radical activists and intellectuals. And, at least briefly ...