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Marcus Garvey

Marcus Garvey

August 17, 1887 – June 10, 1940

Jamaican activist and orator (1887–1940)

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Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. was a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa. Garvey was ideologically a black nationalist and Pan-Africanist. His ideas came to be known as Garveyism.

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