Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal...
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Marcus Garvey is the third album by reggae artist Burning Spear, released in 1975 on Fox Records in Jamaica and then internationally on Island Records...
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Star Line Steamship Corporation, and along with her former husband Marcus Garvey she founded the Negro World newspaper. Amy Ashwood was born in Port...
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Euphemia Jacques Garvey (31 December 1895 – 25 July 1973) was a Jamaican-born journalist and activist. She was the second wife of Marcus Garvey. She was one...
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Garveyism is an aspect of black nationalism that refers to the economic, racial and political policies of UNIA-ACL founder Marcus Garvey. Ethiopia, thou...
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Marcus Garvey Park (formerly and also named Mount Morris Park) is a 20.16-acre (81,600 m2) park on the border between the Harlem and East Harlem neighborhoods...
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Marcus Garvey Village, also known as Marcus Garvey Apartments, is a 625-unit affordable housing development located in the Brownsville neighborhood of...
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fraternal organization founded by Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican immigrant to the United States, and his then-wife Amy Ashwood Garvey. The African Nationalist organization...
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Tony Martin (professor) (section Marcus Garvey)
of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association, published in 1976. He wrote a number of other books about Garvey, including Marcus Garvey...
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Back-to-Africa movement promoted by black nationalist figures such as Marcus Garvey. The religion developed after several Protestant Christian clergymen...
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socio-political ferment inaugurated by Marcus Garvey", while for Cashmore, Garvey was the "most important" precursor of Rastafari. Garvey knew of the Rastas but his...
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Louis Heaton Pink Houses East New York 22 8 1,500 September 30, 1959 Marcus Garvey Houses Brownsville 3 6 and 14 321 February 28, 1975 Marcy Houses Bedford-Stuyvesant...
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religious movement, which began in Jamaica and Ethiopia during the 1930s. Marcus Garvey, born in Jamaica, was influenced by the Ethiopian king Haile Selassie...
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response to racism against African Americans in 1920 with the help of Marcus Garvey. The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities...
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his father played for the club, and was named after Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey. Despite his father playing for Juventus and Barcelona, he as a child...
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The Marcus Garvey Library in Tottenham, North London first opened in 1987. It is a branch of Haringey Libraries run by London Borough of Haringey and...
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pan-African colors through the Ethiopian flag. Black was later added by Marcus Garvey, an activist and organizer for the first black unification movement...
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James Wormley Jones (section FBI and Marcus Garvey)
American Negro in the World War. Hill, Robert A.; Garvey, Marcus (4 November 1983). The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers...
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The Marcus Garvey Centre is a club venue in Lenton, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England. The building, also known as the Marcus Garvey Ballroom, was...
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The Black Star Line (1919−1922) was a shipping line incorporated by Marcus Garvey, the organizer of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)...
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activist Marcus Garvey, who wrote in 1923, "Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa!" A 1923 collection of aphorisms, ideas, and other writing by Garvey also adopts...
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states on the continent of Africa. The concept takes its origin from Marcus Garvey's 1924 poem "Hail, United States of Africa". The idea of a multinational...
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Jeffersons and the Willises. Marcus Garvey Henderson (Ernest Harden Jr.) is George's young employee at Jefferson Cleaners. Marcus grew up in a rough neighborhood...
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Lenton, Nottingham (section Marcus Garvey Ballroom)
Marcus Garvey Ballroom is a local West Indian community centre managed by West Indian Cavaliers, and located on Lenton Boulevard. Named after Marcus Mosiah...
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Robert A. Hill (historian) (section The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers)
scholar on Marcus Garvey, Hill has lectured and written widely on the Garvey movement, and has been editor-in-chief of The Marcus Garvey and Universal...
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Independence of Jamaica (section Garvey)
century the most notable Black leader was Marcus Garvey, a labour leader and advocate of Black nationalism. Garvey, rather than advocating independence of...
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original cultural homeland of Africa. This sentiment was spearheaded by Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association in the 1920s. Black...
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of the Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA). Founded by Garvey and Amy Ashwood Garvey, the newspaper...
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track is a dub version of its correspondent song on his third album, Marcus Garvey. The album was fashioned by Island Record engineers John Burns and Dick...
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The Marcus Garvey People's Political Party (formerly known as the Marcus Garvey People's Progressive Party) is a political party in Jamaica formed by...
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