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  Encyclopedia: Marcus Mosiah Garvey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Garvey, is best remembered as a champion of the so-called "back-to-Africa" movement, which was interpreted as encouraging people of African ancestry to return to their ancestral homeland, and as the most important prophet of the "back-to-Africa" Rastafarian religion.
Garvey was born in St. Ann's Bay, the capital of St.
Garvey was elected Councillor for the Allman Town division of the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) in 1929.
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 Marcus Garvey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Marcus Mosiah Garvey (August 17, 1887 - June 10, 1940) was a publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and international crusader for fl nationalism.
Garvey was unanimously elected by the conventioneers as "Provisional President of Africa" on August 18th.
Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born in St. Ann's Bay, the capital of St.
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 Marcus Garvey -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Garvey said he wanted those of African ancestry to "redeem" (The second largest continent; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean) Africa, and for the (A native or inhabitant of Europe) European colonial powers to leave it.
Although Garvey was raised (A follower of Wesleyanism as practiced by the Methodist Church) Methodist, he became a (The Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy) Roman Catholic.
Garvey inherited a love of books from his father, a skilled (A craftsman who works with stone or brick) mason who had a private (A depository built to contain books and other materials for reading and study) library.
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 Marcus Garvey - Wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Garvey was also associatied with other publications: The Daily Negro Times, Harlem, 1922-1924; the Blackman, Kingston, Jamaica, 1929-1931; the New Jamaican, Kingston, 1932-33; The Black Man magazine[?], which was started in Kingston in 1933 and continued in England until 1939.
The Liberia programme, launched in 1920, was intended to build colleges, universities, industrial plants and railroad tracks as part of an industrial base from which to operate, but the project was abandonded in the mid 1920's after much opposition from European powers with interests in Liberia.
On his release in November 1927, Garvey was deported to his homeland where a large crowd met him at Orrett's wharf in Kingston.
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 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.
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 Marcus Garvey
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.
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