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	BBC - History - Marcus Garvey (1887 - 1940)
		Marcus Garvey is best remembered as a pivotal figure in the struggle for racial equality throughout the world.
		Marcus Garvey moved to England to live with his sister who was a governess.
		Under Marcus Garvey's leadership the UNIA did enjoy some success and in 1920 held a month-long international conference in New York which was attended by delegates from all over the world.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/garvey_marcus.shtml (599 words)

	Marcus Garvey - Black Unification Network
		Marcus Garvey was the youngest foreman printer in Kingston and at a time when foremen were still being imported from Great Britain and Canada.
		Garvey was elected one of the assistant secretaries of the National Club, which sought to combat privileges and the evils of British colonialism on the island.
		Garvey, because he was considered a threat to the stability of their colonies.
	www.marcusgarvey.net (2026 words)

	The Life and Theories of Marcus Garvey
		Marcus Garvey’s background had a strong impact on his beliefs, which acted as a catalyst for his life’s work.
		Marcus Garvey was born and raised in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica.
		Marcus Garvey moved to the United States in 1916, after the UNIA was established in Jamaica.
	www.msu.edu /course/mc/112/1920s/Garvey-Dubois/sarahp.htm (1100 words)

	Marcus Garvey
		Garvey was influenced by the ideas of Booker T. Washington and made plans to develop a trade school for the poor similar to the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
		Garvey appealed to the new militant feelings of fl that followed the end of the First World War and asked those African Americans who had been willing to fight for democracy in Europe to now join his army to fight for equal rights.
		Marcus Garvey is of medium height, his head set close down upon broad shoulders, his slender, longish arms terminating in narrow hands, he presents a sedentary almost studious type - except that one feels the orator if not the actor not far beneath his surface.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAgarvey.htm (2688 words)

	Marcus Garvey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marcus Mosiah Garvey, national hero of Jamaica, (August 17, 1887– June 10, 1940) was a publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, Black nationalist crusader, and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL).
		Garvey said he wanted those of African ancestry to "redeem" Africa and for the European colonial powers to leave it.
		Garvey traveled to Geneva in 1928 to present the Petition of the Negro Race, which outlined the worldwide abuse of Africans, to the League of Nations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marcus_Garvey (2454 words)

	raceandhistory.com - MARCUS GARVEY
		Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born in St. Ann, Jamaica, in 1887, descended from the fiercely proud Maroons.
		Garvey's goal of repatriation was expressed in his famous slogan "Africa for the Africans." His well-known Black Star Line steamship company was established to trade and eventually carry New World fls to Africa.
		Nor was Garvey's idea of racial pride a matter of envy towards other races, rather he advocated self-discipline as a basis of pride and was severely critical of complainers: "We are to envious, malicious and superficial, and because of this we keep back ourselves".
	www.raceandhistory.com /Historians/marcus_garvey.htm (1931 words)

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		The elder Marcus was a cold and contentious man, who spent long hours secluded in his study; he prided himself on being a full-blooded fl descended from the Maroons, escaped slaves who maintained their independence in the hills of Jamaica from 1664 to 1795.
		Marcus was the fifth of eleven children born to the couple, but only he and his sister Indiana lived to maturity.
		Garvey's lasting significance is as a symbol of the search for a fl identity and a struggle for cultural autonomy.
	www.fultonschools.org /teacher/stratton/garvey.html (2578 words)

	Marcus Garvey
		Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) form a critical link in fl America's centuries-long struggle for freedom, justice, and equality.
		Garvey was born on 17 August 1887 in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica.
		Garvey arrived in America at the dawn of the "New Negro" era.
	afgen.com /garvey1.html (605 words)

	Rembmering Marcus Garvey's Birthday
		Marcus Garvey was born August 17, 1887 in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica, to Marcus and Sarah Garvey.
		Garvey’s mother, Sarah, was said to be of extraordinary beauty and possessed a gentle personality.
		Garvey left school at the age of 14 and became an apprentice printer in Kingston.
	www.finalcall.com /perspectives/m_garvey8-17-99.html (829 words)

	Marcus Garvey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Garvey moved to Kingston at the age of 14, found work in a printshop, and became acquainted with the abysmal living conditions of the laboring class.
		When Marcus Garvey died in 1940 the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies.
		Marcus Garvey's avocation of African redemption and the restoration of the African state's sovereign political entity in world affairs was still a dream without fulfillment.
	www.swagga.com /marcus.htm (4204 words)

	Harlem 1900-1940: Schomburg Exhibit - Marcus Garvey
		Garvey was born in Jamaica and immigrated to Harlem in 1916 at the age of 28.
		Garvey studied all of the literature he could find on African history and culture and decided to launch the Universal Negro Improvement Association with the goal of unifying "all the Negro peoples of the world into one great body and to establish a country and government absolutely on their own".
		Garvey claimed over a milllion people had joined his organization in 3 years.
	www.si.umich.edu /CHICO/Harlem/text/garvey.html (496 words)

	AfricanTribute
		Marcus Garvey joins a long list of Carribeans alongside George Padmore and others, who played a very crucial role in the struggle for the liberation of Africa from white dominance, eventhough they were not native Africans.
		Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born in St.Ann, Jamaica in 1887.
		Garvey was however terribly dissapointed in Costa Rica, where he found a large number of his countrymen and other fl Carribeans still struggling after running away from their home countries.
	kenya740.tripod.com /marcusgarvey.html (2725 words)

	Religious Movements Homepage: Marcus Garvey, Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
		On August 17, 1887, Marcus Garvey was born in the town of St. Ann's Bay, on the northern coast of Jamaica.
		This vision led Garvey in August 1914 to establish the Universal Negro Improvement and Conservation Association and African Communities League, whose stated interest was in the unification of the Negro race.
		In 1916, Garvey Negroes that were excluded and culturally isolated from the larger white world, but alsoa significant percentage of West Indians who were isolated from the native American Negro population.
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/garvey.html (7215 words)

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		Marcus Garvey was born in 1887 in the St. Ann's Parish in Jamaica.
		Garvey had always been a quick learner and when he became the foreman of a printing company in Kingston, the capital of Jamaica,"he continued his education by reading extensively, taking advantage of the company library."5 However, Marcus Garvey's political feelings soon got in the way when the workers went on strike in 1909.
		Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association was beginning to experience opposition from the police and J. Edgar Hoover,"Hoover later was to become head of the FBI and pursue a notorious career of harassing civil rights leaders"21.
	debate.uvm.edu /dreadlibrary/jeans.html (2473 words)

	Nobel People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The work and philosophy of Dr. Garvey is therefore a paradigm for the intentions he held with respect to Africa and the people that were dispersed from its’ shores.
		Within the paradigm Dr. Garvey furthered; for the continuum of his work and the future of the race; are the elements of redemption and uplift of his race.
		The Garvey Movement, particularly the Universal African Black Cross Nurses, contributed to the health and social care of Black servicemen returning from World War I. On returning, to the US, African American servicemen were lynched and degraded North and South by many whites because of their race.
	www.marcusgarveylibrary.org.uk /biography.htm (1005 words)

	Marcus Garvey Bio
		Marcus Mosiah Garvey, one of the greatest leaders African people have produced, was born August 17, 1887 in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica, and spent his entire life in the service of his people--African people.
		In 1916 Garvey was invited by Booker T. Washington to come to the United States in the hopes of establishing an industrial training school, but arrived just after Washington died.
		Within a few years Garvey had become the best-known and most dynamic African leader in the Western Hemisphere and perhaps the entire world.
	www.africawithin.com /garvey/garvey_bio.htm (417 words)

	Marcus Garvey
		Garvey was born in St. Ann's Bay on Jamaica's north coast.
		Garvey had to leave school early due to financial troubles and he took a job as a printer apprentice to his godfather.
		Garvey's first two attempts to establish a New York chapter of the U.N.I.A. with headquarters in Jamaica were sabotaged by socialists and Republicans who wanted to turn it into a political club.
	www.duboislc.org /ShadesOfBlack/MarcusGarvey.html (1771 words)

	Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association - The Twentieth Century - Divining America: Religion and ...
		Garvey was born in 1887 in St. Anne's Bay, Jamaica.
		Perhaps Garvey's greatest genius was taking that message of material, social, and political success and transforming it into a religious message, one that could lead to "conversion," one that did not challenge the basic doctrines of his followers but incorporated them into the whole of his vision.
		Garvey, Malcolm, and Carmichael are all considered more radical than the mainstream civil rights protesters, yet it was Booker T. Washington, someone considered quite conservative by most scholars, who had a profound influence on Garvey.
	www.nhc.rtp.nc.us /tserve/twenty/tkeyinfo/garvey.htm (3079 words)

	Marcus Mosiah Garvey
		Garvey was no ordinary man, but one of those rare creatures of history whose fate it is to be seized with the social and economic oppression of a people and who see this oppression as his or her own spiritual mission.
		Garvey’s return to the Jamaican UNIA headquarters caused "widespread fragmentation and desertion among branches in the United States." Although the UNIA convention in Kingston in 1929 was able to "recapture some of the splendor and enthusiasm of its early Harlem era, the organization never again amassed a substantial membership."
		Marcus Garvey was buried in St. Mary’s Roman Catholic cemetery in Kensal Green, London.
	debate.uvm.edu /dreadlibrary/winnick.html (4283 words)

	Marcus Garvey — FactMonster.com
		The UNIA was an organization designed “to promote the spirit of race pride.” Broadly, its goals were to foster worldwide unity among all fls and to establish the greatness of the African heritage.
		Garvey addressed himself to the lowest classes of fls and rejected any notion of integration.
		Garvey was the most influential fl leader of the early 1920s.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0820268.html (345 words)

	Marcus Garvey Movement
		Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born on August 17 1887, in St Ann’s Bay.
		Garvey was good at his work, and his godfather sent him to Port Maria, to look after a printery there.
		He did well, and when he was 18 he was made a foreman – in charge of a group of workers.
	www.moec.gov.jm /heroes/garvey.htm (253 words)

	Marcus Garvey
		Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940), devoted his life to the cause of correcting the injustices that fls were subjected to, everywhere they were found.
		Garvey, in 1914, founded and became the charismatic leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (U.N.I.A.).
		Today, Marcus Garvey is revered as a hallmark of fl leadership and one of the great visionaries of this century.
	www.seemeonline.com /fasr/garveypage.htm (324 words)

	Marcus Garvey and Rastafari: The Life of Bob Marley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Marcus Garvey and Rastafari: The Life of Bob Marley
		Garvey's prophecy for an African King was the seed for Jamaican Rastafari.
		Garvey, who had been born in St. Ann in 1887 and founded the United Negro Improvement Association, spoke to an audience at Madison Square Garden in New York of "Ethiopia, land of our fathers," and proclaimed that 'negroes' believed in "the God of Ethiopia, the everlasting God."
	www.bobmarley.com /life/rastafari/garvey.html (219 words)

	Africa Speaks \| Marcus Garvey - Africa For The Africans
		Marcus Garvey: Controversial Champion of Black Pride (African-American Biographies)
		The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans (The New Marcus Garvey Library, No. 9)
		The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers (Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers)
	www.rastaspeaks.com /Africa_For_The_Africans.html (240 words)

	The Impact of Marcus Garvey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In most cases what went wrong was that as these leaders failed to learn the lessons of self-reliance and power preparation as advocated by Marcus Garvey and in different ways by Booker T. Washington, W.E.B Dubois, Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X. Africa became infiltrated by foreign agents.
		I do not think African people can succeed in the world until the hear again Marcus Garvey's call:
		We must hear again Marcus Garvey calling out to us:
	unia-acl.org /archive/impactof.htm (1126 words)

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