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Social activist Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born in, St. Ann's Bay Jamaica.
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He traveled to Kingston, Jamaica and soon became involved in union activites.
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he took part in an unsuccesful printer's strike and the experience kindled in him a passion for political activism.
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he returned to jamaica and founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association with the goal of uniting all of african diaspora to "establish a country and absolute government of their own,
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Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association had launched the Black Star Line, A shipping company that would establish trade and commerce between Africans in America, the Caribbean, South and Central America, Canada and Africa
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UNIA claimed 4 million members and held its first International Convention at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
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Marcus Garvey and three other UNIA officials were charged with mail fraud involving the Black Star Line.
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Garvey was convicted and sentenced to prison for five years. Claiming to be a victim of a politically motivated miscarriage of justice, Garvey appealed his conviction, but was denied.
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he was released from prison and deported to jamaica.
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Garvey continued his political activism and the work of UNIA in Jamaica, and then moved to London but he did not command the same influence he had earlier.
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The Greater Liberia Act would deport 12 million African-Americans to Liberia at federal expense to relieve unemployment.
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Marcus Garvey died in London in after several strokes. Due to travel restrictions during World War II, his body was interred in London.