Marcus Garvey was an influential African American leader in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League to promote pride, education, and economic independence among African Americans. Garvey encouraged African Americans to start their own businesses and be self-sufficient. He also created the Black Star Line shipping company to transport passengers between Africa, the US, and the Caribbean. Though controversial, Garvey promoted black nationalism and racial pride, inspiring civil rights leaders for generations to come.
Marcus Garvey was an influential African American leader in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League to promote pride, education, and economic independence among African Americans. Garvey encouraged African Americans to start their own businesses and be self-sufficient. He also created the Black Star Line shipping company to transport passengers between Africa, the US, and the Caribbean. Though controversial, Garvey promoted black nationalism and racial pride, inspiring civil rights leaders for generations to come.
Marcus Garvey was an influential African American leader in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League to promote pride, education, and economic independence among African Americans. Garvey encouraged African Americans to start their own businesses and be self-sufficient. He also created the Black Star Line shipping company to transport passengers between Africa, the US, and the Caribbean. Though controversial, Garvey promoted black nationalism and racial pride, inspiring civil rights leaders for generations to come.
Marcus Garvey was an influential African American leader in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League to promote pride, education, and economic independence among African Americans. Garvey encouraged African Americans to start their own businesses and be self-sufficient. He also created the Black Star Line shipping company to transport passengers between Africa, the US, and the Caribbean. Though controversial, Garvey promoted black nationalism and racial pride, inspiring civil rights leaders for generations to come.
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Tamara Cheroki
Period 7 11/11/17 Marcus Garvey It goes without saying that the ideas of the African-American leaders to respond to the loss of rights during the late 19th and early 20th century were very important for the issues that people from that race had to deal with in that period of time. One of those emblematic leaders was Marcus Garvey, founder of the Garveyism movement and an orator for the Black Nationalism. He formed the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). He also founded the Negro World Newspaper and the Black Star Line Company. To start with, born and raised in Jamaica, Marcus Garvey after traveling and visiting some countries, was concerned about how Africans were mistreated. This inspired him to be interested in Africa and black history, which led him found the Universal Negro Improvement Association (U.N.I.A) when he returned to Jamaica to establish modern societies in Africa and transport blacks “back” to Africa. For Garvey, educational, industrial and political success were the base for the formation of a government and nation of their own. He considered segregation in the United States as a “failure”. That is why he moved to the USA in 1917 and raised his voice with Negro World, a widely distributed newspaper to convey his message. Not only he did that but also Garvey even created a steamship company called "Black Star Line" for transportation to Africa, Haiti, Jamaica, Costa Rica and elsewhere to employ African sailors. He provided many social and economic benefits for their members. He encouraged blacks to start their own businesses, work for personal subsistence and be economically independent. Also he formed the African Orthodox Church, as he claimed that God has to be seen through its own racial view. According to Garvey's supporters, the trial about the investments in the shipping line who led him be imprisoned was not fair and that he was exploited by his racist enemies. To sum up, Garvey was proclaimed Jamaica’s first national hero after his death. His message of pride and dignity inspired many people in the Civil Rights loss during the 20 century. His messages th
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