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Marcus Garvey is born in Jamaica.
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Traveled to Kingston, Jamaica, and became involved in union activities
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He took part in unsuccessful printer's strike and the experience kindled in him a passion for political activism.
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Garvey traveled throughout Central America as a newspaper editor and wrote about exploitation of migrant workers in the plantations.
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Garvey returned to Jamaica and founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).
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Traveled to the US to raise funds for similar venture in Jamaica. He formed a UNIA chapter in Harlem to promote a separatist philosophy of social, political, and economic freedom for blacks.
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Began publishing the widely distributed newspaper Negro World to convey his message.
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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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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.
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Garvey was released from prison and deported to Jamaica.
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Garvey continued his political activism and the work of UNIA in Jamaica then moved to London.
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Would deport 12 million African-Americans to Liberia at federal expense to relieve unemployment. The act failed resulting in Garvey losing support among the black population.
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Marcus Garvey died after several strokes.