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June 10, 1940 (52 years old)
Zodiac Sign
Leo
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Celebrities born on August 17
Born in 1887
Born in Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica
Leo named Marcus
Civil Rights Leaders from Jamaica
Civil Rights Leaders born in Jamaica
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Marcus Garvey
Marcus Mosiah Garvey Sr. is a Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, businessman and speaker. He is the founder and first president of the Global Association for the Improvement of Blacks and the Federation of African Communities, through which he proclaims himself the interim president of Africa. According to black nationalism and ideological Lien Phiist, his ideas are called Garveyism. Garvey was born into a fairly wealthy African-Jamaican family in Saint Ann Bay, Jamaica, and learned to print as a teenager. Working in Kingston, he became involved in trade unionism before spending short stays in Costa Rica, Panama and England. Back in Jamaica, he founded UNIA in 1914. In 1916, he moved to the United States and created the UNIA branch in the Harlem district of New York. Emphasizing the unity between Africans and the African American community, he campaigned to end European colonialism across Africa and to unify politics on the continent.
BornMarcus Mosiah Garvey, August 17, 1887, Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica
DiedJune 10, 1940, West Kensington, London, England, United Kingdom
Alma materBirkbeck, University of London
OccupationPublisher, journalist
Known forActivism, black nationalism, Pan-Africanism
Children2
Parent(s)Malchus Garvey, Sarah Anne Richards

About Marcus Garvey

Civil Rights Leader Marcus Garvey was born in Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica on August 17, 1887. He dies at the age of 52, on June 10, 1940.

Iconic leader in the Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements who believed that all Americans and Europeans of African descent should return to Africa.

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Marcus Garvey before becoming famous

Marcus Garvey was born in the Zodiac sign Leo (The Lion), and 1887 is also the year of Pig (豬) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He worked as a time-keeper on a banana plantation in Costa Rica for several months while traveling around the Caribbean and Europe.

Achievement of Marcus Garvey

In 1914, he formed the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), which grew to millions of members worldwide by 1920.

Marcus Garvey's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

In 1922, he married Amy Jacques and they had two children together.

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Marcus Garvey Collabed with

Teacher Booker T. Washington impacted him and they corresponded.

Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915) (Teacher)
Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)

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Marcus Garvey Income & Net worth

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