Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement ... he slid into such obscurity that he suffered the final indignity of reading his own obituaries a month before his June 10, 1940 death.

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 ...

Hansford, who first learned about Garvey while reading "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," said he was surprised to discover that Malcolm X's parents were Garveyites. Hansford has dedicated years to ...

April 9: Marcus Garvey Sr. dies in Jamaica ... June 10: After suffering a second cerebral hemorrhage or cardiac arrest while reading the inaccurate news reports of his death, Garvey dies in ...