Traveled to Kingston, Jamicia, to be involved in union activities
Took part in a unsuccessful printer's strike which made a passion for political activism
Travld through central America working as a newspaper and writing about migrant workers in the plantations
Founded the Unversal Negro Improvement Association
formed a UNIA chapter in Harlem to promote a separatist philosophy of social, political, and economic freedom for blacks.
Started publishing Negro World to the community
launched the black star line
Garvey spoke in front of millions of UNIA members
Garvey and three other students charged with mail fraud
Garvey was convicted and sentenced to prison
Released from prison and was deported to Jamaica
Garvey continued his political activism and the work of UNIA in Jamaica, and then moved to London
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
Marcus Garvey died in London after several strokes
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.