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He traveled to Kingston, Jamaica, and soon became involved in union activities.
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He traveled to Kingston, Jamaica, and soon became involved in union activities.
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He took part in an unsuccessful printer's strike and the experience kindled in him a passion for political activism.
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He took part in an unsuccessful printer's strike and the experience kindled in him a passion for political activism.
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He traveled throughout Central America working as an newspaper editor and writing about the exploitation of migrant workers in the plantations
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He traveled throughout Central America working as an newspaper editor and writing about the exploitation of migrant workers in the plantations
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Marcus Garvey returned to Jamaica in 1912 and founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) with the goal of uniting all of African diaspora to "establish a country and absolute government of their own."
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After corresponding with Booker T. Washington, the American educator who founded Tuskegee Institute, Garvey traveled to the United States in 1916 to raise funds for a similar venture in Jamaica.
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In 1918, Garvey began publishing the widely distributed newspaper Negro World to convey his message.
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By 1919, Marcus Garvey and UNIA 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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By 1919, Marcus Garvey and UNIA 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.