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Traveled to Kingston, Jamaica
Became involved in union activities. -
Strike!
Took part in an unsuccessful printers strike, and the experience kindled in him a passion for political activism. -
Traveling Worldwide
He traveled throughout Central America working as an newspaper editor and writing about the exploitation of migrant workers in the plantations. -
Schooling
He later traveled to London where he attended Birkbeck College (University of London) and worked for the African Times and Orient Review, which advocated Pan-African nationalism. -
The Return
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. -
U.S.A!
Garvey traveled to the United States in 1916 to raise funds for a similar venture in Jamaica. He settled in New York City and formed a UNIA chapter in Harlem to promote a separatist philosophy of social, political, and economic freedom for blacks. -
Books?
Garvey began publishing the widely distributed newspaper Negro World to convey his message. -
UNIA , Black Star Line
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 at the same time Garvey started the Negros Factories Association, a series of companies that would manufacture marketable commodities in every big industrial center in the Western hemisphere and Africa -
Convention
UNIA claimed 4 million members and held its first International Convention at Madison Square Garden in New York City. -
Prison?
Marcus Garvey and three other UNIA officials were charged with mail fraud involving the Black Star Line. The trial records indicate several improprieties occurred in the prosecution of the case. It didn't help that the shipping line's books contained many accounting irregularities. -
Guilty!
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. -
Home, sweet Home
he was released from prison and deported to Jamaica. -
Lost with no hope.
The Greater Liberia Act of 1939 would deport 12 million African-Americans to Liberia at federal expense to relieve unemployment. The act failed in Congress, and Garvey lost even more support among the black population. -
Death...
Marcus Garvey died in London in 1940 after several strokes. Due to travel restrictions during World War II, his body was interred in London. In 1964, his remains were exhumed and taken to Jamaica, where the government proclaimed him Jamaica's first national hero and re-interred him at a shrine in the National Heroes Park.