August 17: Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. is born in St ... by speaking nightly as a soapbox orator on a Harlem street corner. April 25: Garvey visits W.E.B. Du Bois, the editor of The Crisis, the ...

When Marcus Garvey first arrived ... Philip Randolph, who had introduced Garvey to his first American audience on a Harlem street corner, said Garvey had "succeeded in making the Negro the ...