Marcus Garvey known to us all as a Black Nationalist, Mr. Garvey was born in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica, were he started his interest in politics and journalism at a young age. He studied literature and everything he could find on Black culture and history. Garvey migrated to Harlem, New York in 1916 at the age of 28. He was so interested in Booker T. Washington's philosophy in self-improvement of African decent that he started his own organization. He became the founder and leader of the United Negro Improvement Association. He also advocated the Back-to-Africa Movement were he organized a shipping company called the Black Star Line. The Black Star line was the international trade company to conduct a trade for black Africans and the rest of the world to return blacks back to Africa.The expansion of the UNIA was published in the "Negro World" in English, French and Spanish. Things began to look bad for Garvey's international trading company, there was a failure of shipping, which caused Garvey's enemies to destroy him. Garvey was imprisoned in 1925 in the U.S. because his shipping investments were lost, he only served nearly three years of a five year sentence and was then deported back to Jamaica. His work continued in Jamaica, he ventured into politics but was unable to because blacks were not allowed to vote. He then moved to England to continue his work of social protest and liberation(freeing) of Africa. He later died in London on June 10, 1940.
Information was found:
No comments:
Post a Comment