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Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL, commonly known as UNIA), through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa.
The jury convicted only Garvey, but not the other three officers, and he was sentenced to five years in prison. In 1927, President Calvin Coolidge deported Garvey back to Jamaica. The Black Star Line was suspended by Garvey in February 1922, following his arrest on mail fraud charges. The Shady Side was abandoned on mudflats at Fort Lee, New ...
A rival "UNIA-ACL August 1929 of the World" emerged, headed by Marcus Garvey after his deportation to Jamaica. [citation needed] Garvey appointed Maymie de Mena as his official representative to head the American field after his ouster to Jamaica.
President Joe Biden pardoned five people on Sunday, including the late civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, and commuted the sentences of two, the White House said in a statement.. Garvey, who died ...
President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s. Also ...
A group of 21 House Democrats signed a letter urging the president to exonerate former civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, according to a statement sent by the lawmakers to ABC News on Monday.
Declared an enemy alien by the Wilson administration and deported from the United States during World War I [29] Conrad Gallagher: Irish chef and restaurateur Ireland: 2002 Ireland: Financial convictions in the United States and Ireland [30] [31] Marcus Garvey: Founder of Universal Negro Improvement Association Jamaica: 1927 Jamaica
Marcus Garvey, "Africa's Provisional President," is seen during the renaming of the ship from the "General G.W. Goethals" to the S.S Booker T. Washington, Jan. 25, 1925.