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Birth
Marcus Moziah Garvey was born on August 17, 1887, in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica, to Marcus Garvey Sr. and Sarah Jane Richards. His father was a stonemason and his mother was a household servant. -
Union Activities
On 1903 he traveled to Kingston, Jamaica, and soon became involved in union activities. -
Unsuccessful Printer Strike
He took part in a unsuccessful printer strike and the experience kindle him in a passion for political activism -
Return to Jamaica
Marcus Garvey returned to Jamaica in 1912 and founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association(U.N.I.A) with the goal intended of uniting all of Africa to establish a country and nation of their own and rule themselves with an absolute government of their own. -
Booker T. Washington
After corresponding with the American educator who founded Tuskegee institute, Booker T. Washington, Garvey traveled to the U.S. in 1916 to raise funds for similar venture in Jamaica -
U.N.I.A.
In the year 1919, Garvey and the U.N.I.A. 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. -
Death
Marcus Garvey died on June 10, 1940, after having multiple strokes. He was buried in St. Mary's Roman Catholic cemetery in Kensal Green, London. -
National Hero Park
Marcus Garvey's remains were exhumed and brought to Jamaica, the government proclaimed him Jamaica's 1st national hero and put him in a shrine on the National Hero Park. His message of pride and dignity inspired many in the early days of the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.