August 17: Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. is born in St. Ann's Bay ... November 7: The Russian Revolution. The Bolsheviks, a broad-based Socialist group supported by workers and soldiers and led ...

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 ...

Marcus Garvey. Haji Malcolm’s introduction to ... the teachings of the Nation of Islam and join it with his concept of revolution as put forth in his “Message to the Grassroots” speech.

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 ...

For over a century, civil rights leader Marcus Mosiah Garvey was demonized, misunderstood and left to the interpretations of ...

Marcus Mosiah Garvey, who died in 1940 ... His supporters claimed his case was aimed at discrediting the Black Revolution amid a period of racial unrest. He created the Black Star Line shipping ...

At the end of a July 8 meeting in Harlem to discuss the violence, Marcus Garvey, recently returned from a year-long speaking tour of the country, asked to say a few words. The crowd stood ...

Marcus Garvey is viewed by many as a civil rights icon who was ostracized by his own government. Advocates are again pressing Joe Biden to rewrite history. MLK's daughter spoke to Newsweek about ...

Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association form a critical link in black America's centuries-long struggle for freedom, justice, and equality. As the leader of the largest ...

When Marcus Garvey died in 1940 the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey's avocation of African ...