Marcus Garvey - Brown

By Cailee Brown

  • Social activist Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr. was born.

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    Marcus Garvey

  • He traveled to Kingston, Jamaica, and became involved in union activities.

  • He took part in an unsuccessful printer's strike and the experience kindled in him a passion for political activism.

  • He traveled throughout Central America working as an newspaper editor and writing about the exploitation of migrant workers in the plantations

  • Garvey returned to Jamaica and founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)

  • Garvey traveled to the United States to raise funds for something similar to the Tuskegee Institute in Jamaica.

  • Garvey began publishing the widely distributed newspaper Negro World to convey his message.

  • Marcus Garvey and UNIA had launched the Black Star Line

  • UNIA claimed 4 million members and held its first International Convention at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

  • Marcus Garvey and three other UNIA officials were charged with mail fraud involving the Black Star Line

  • Garvey was convicted and sentenced to prison for five years

  • Garvey continued his political activism and the work of UNIA in Jamaica, and then moved to London.

  • The Greater Liberia Act of 1939 deported 12 million African-Americans to Liberia at federal expense to relieve unemployment.

  • Marcus Garvey died in London after several strokes