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Marcus Garvey LIfespan
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Took Place in the Unofficial Printers Strike
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He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association
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He began publishing a newspaper called "Negro World"
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Garvey and UNIA launched Black Star
Black Star was a shipping company that would establish trade and commerce between Africans in America, the Caribbean, South and Central America, Canada and Africa. -
Garvey was sentenced to prison for 5 years
They claimed that Garvey was a victim of a politically motivated miscarriage of justice -
Realeased year
Garvey was realeased from prison and was deported back to Jamaica. -
Garvey and Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi
The Greater Liberia Act of 1939 would deport 12 million African-Americans to Liberia at federal expense to relieve unemployment. Failed because of Congress. -
Garvey passed
Passed away in London, England due to several strokes
