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