But Garvey and Ashwood kept in touch through letters and Amy eventually joined Marcus in New York in 1918. She worked by his side at UNIA and even saved him from an assassination attempt in ...

Early Life in Jamaica Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. was born on August 17, 1887, in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica. He was the last of 11 children born to Marcus Garvey Sr. and Sarah Jane Richards.

As a starting point, Dr. Garvey launched the Marcus Garvey Institute For Human Development, a digital platform where viewers can get information on his father's legacy and philosophy.

Marcus Garvey, who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in 1914 and advocated for Black nationalism, was posthumously pardoned by President Joe Biden in one of his final acts ...

Garvey was known to many as the “Black Moses.” He died in 1940, but his influence reached far beyond his lifetime, inspiring Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, Bob Marley and many others.

Pardoning Garvey is long overdue. It is also admitting, weak as it is, the wrong that America has done to people who 1: looked like Garvey and 2: thought as he did. I hope it does not end here.

Economically, Garvey’s program went beyond small community outlets. He appealed to UNIA members and the Black community in general to collectively invest in larger ventures.

Nearly two dozen House Democrats have signed a letter encouraging President Joe Biden to exonerate former civil rights leader Marcus Garvey. In 1923, Garvey — one of the first internationally ...

Garvey returned to Jamaica hoping to start an industrial education school and established UNIA as the management arm. He wrote to Booker T. Washington and was invited to visit Tuskegee to learn ...

Economically, Garvey’s program went beyond small community outlets. He appealed to UNIA members and the Black community in general to collectively invest in larger ventures. In 1920, he founded ...