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Marcus Mosiah Garvey (b. 8/17/1887 – d. 6/10/1940) |
At fourteen years old, Garvey became a printer's apprentice. In 1907, Garvey, though a business office of management, led a strike with the printer for higher wages. Garvey's uncompromising negotiations with management on the behalf of workers led to his beingness fired in addition to ostracized yesteryear Kingston's person printing companies. It was this early on grooming that afterwards led Garvey to published his starting fourth dimension newspaper, The Watchman, every bit a forum for his emerging political views close oppression inside society.
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Garvey left Jamaica betwixt the years 1910 in addition to 1912 to travel. He travelled to countries inwards South in addition to Central America. This included Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Columbia, in addition to Venezuela. He moved to England inwards 1911 to written report briefly at Birkbeck College. It was piece inwards England, inwards 1911 at the Hyde Park Speaker’s Corner, that he began to verbalize publicly close the status of Africans. An of import encounter for Garvey piece inwards London was coming together Duse Mohammed Ali, editor of the African Times in addition to Orient Review.
He returned to Jamaica inwards 1914 in addition to founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). On March 16, 1916, Garvey moved to Harlem inwards New York where UNIA thrived. Garvey spoke across America in addition to gained thousands of supporters. He urged African-Americans to go proud of their race in addition to render to Africa. His biggest critic of his fourth dimension was W.E.B. Dubois, who publicly criticized the 'Back to Africa' movement.
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Marcus Garvey married the Jamaican-born Amy Jacques Garvey. Mrs. Garvey did non obtain her legitimacy merely from the status of her hubby every bit she was a powerful Pan-Africanist in addition to Black Nationalist journalist. In 1919, Amy Jacques became the Secretary General of the UNIA, a seat she held for to a greater extent than than one-half a century. From 1924 to 1927, Mrs. Garvey was the associate editor of The Negro World, an UNIA newspaper, where she wrote a column titled "Our Women in addition to What They Think."
Marcus Garvey with his married adult woman Amy Jacques Garvey
By 1919, Garvey also founded the Black Star Line, a trans-Atlantic ship he aimed to utilization every bit transportation to in addition to from Africa. Garvey's attemps to pursuade the authorities of Republic of Liberia to grant dry soil settlements were unsuccessful. That same year, Garvey founded the Negro Factories Corporation to encourage economical independence. In 1922, Garvey was arrested yesteryear U.S. marshalls on allegation of postal service fraud through utilization of the federal postal service system. The illustration was inwards connective with Garvey's sale of ship stock inwards the Black Star Line.
Many commentators propose that the prosecution was politically motivated, every bit Garvey's popularity inwards the U.S. with Black communities had attracted authorities attention. U.S. Congressman Charles Range, 15th District, notes inwards a February 22, 2002 OP-EDS, that a New York Times' written report of J. Edgar Hoover's purpose inwards the Garvey prosecution: “Hoover saw the [B]lacks in addition to the Reds every bit a larger conspiracy. The novel Negro movement, which Garvey symbolized, Hoover saw every bit a terrible threat to the American way.”
Many of the members of his early on Garveyism or Garveyite motion would go business office of the later established Nation of Islam inwards the U.S. Garvey's telephone telephone for a U.S. of A. of America of Africa was heard non only inwards the Caribbean Area in addition to U.S., but inwards West Africa in addition to Southern Africa. Garvey believed a pan-African dry soil was needed to render stability in addition to wealth to Africa.
The Poem 'Hail, U.S. of A. of America of Africa' was written yesteryear Marcus Garvey inwards 1924.
Hail! U.S. of A. of America of Africa!
Hail! U.S. of A. of America of Africa-free! Hail! Motherland most bright, divinely fair! State inwards perfect sisterhood united, Born of truth; mighty thou shalt always be. Hail! Sweet dry soil of our father’s noble kin! Let joy inside thy bounds go always known; Friend of the wandering poor, in addition to helpless, thou, Light to all, such every bit freedom’s reigns within.
From Liberia’s peaceful western coast To the foaming Cape at the southern end, There’s but ane constabulary in addition to persuasion sublime, One flag, in addition to its emblem of which nosotros boast. The Nigerians are all united now, Sierra Leone in addition to the Gold Coast, too. Gambia, Senegal, non divided, But inwards ane matrimony happily bow.
Poem yesteryear Marcus Mosiah GarveyThe treason of the centuries is dead, All alien whites are forever gone; The glad abode of Sheba is in ane lawsuit to a greater extent than free, As o’er the world the dark n-tan raised his head. Bechuanaland, a State with Kenya, Members of the Federal Union grand, Send their greetings to sis Zanzibar, And so does laughing Tanganyika.
Over inwards Grand Mother Mozambique, The pretty Union Flag floats inwards the air, She is sis to expert Somaliland, Smiling with the children of Dahomey. Three lusty thank you lot for onetime Basutoland, Timbuctoo, Tunis in addition to Algeria, Uganda, Kamerun, all together Are inwards the Union with Nyasaland. We waited long for fiery Morocco, Now with Republic of Guinea in addition to Togo she has come, All gratis in addition to equal inwards the sisterhood, Like Swazi, Zululand in addition to the Congo.
There is no dry soil left out of the Union- The East, West, North, South, including Central, Are inwards the nation, strong forever, Over blacks inwards glorious dominion. Hail! U.S. of A. of America of Africa-free! Country of the brave dark man’s liberty; State of greater nationhood thou hast won, H5N1 novel life for the race is merely begun.
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| Photo: Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1914) |
In 1925, despite an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, Garvey was sent to the Atlanta penitentiary. His The Garvey Letter From an Atlanta Prison is dated Feb 10, 1925, in addition to excerpted below every bit follows:
Fellow Men of the Negro Race Greetings
I am delighted to inform you, that your humble retainer is every bit happy inwards suffering for you lot in addition to our drive every bit is possible nether the circumstances of beingness viciously outraged yesteryear a grouping of plotters who receive got connived to produce their worst to humiliate you lot through me, inwards larn by for existent emancipation in addition to African Redemption.
I produce non desire at this fourth dimension to write anything that would larn inwards hard for you lot to reckon the opposition of your enemy without my assistance. Suffice to tell that the history of the offend shall shape a first-class chapter inwards the history of Africa redeemed. When dark homo volition no longer go nether the heels of others, but receive got a civilization in addition to civilization of their own.
The whole thing is a disgrace, in addition to the whole dark world knows it. We shall non forget. Our hateful solar daytime may go fifty, a hundred or 2 hundred years ahead, allow us watch, work, in addition to pray, for the civilization of injustice is jump to crumble in addition to pick out devastation downward upon the heads of the unjust.
My operate is merely begun, in addition to when the history of my suffering is complete, so the hereafter generations of the Negro volition receive got inwards their hands the guide yesteryear which they shall know the “sins” of the twentieth century. I, in addition to I know you, too, believe inwards time, in addition to nosotros shall hold off patiently for 2 hundred years, if necessitate be, to facial expression upwardly our enemies through our prosperity.
All I receive got I receive got given you. I receive got sacrificed my abode in addition to my loving married adult woman for you. I entrust her to your charge, to protect in addition to defend her inwards my absence. She is the bravest footling adult woman I know. She has suffered in addition to sacrificed with me for you, therefore, delight produce non desert her at this dismal hour, when she stands alone. I left her penniless in addition to helpless to facial expression upwardly the world, because I gave you lot all, but her courage is great, in addition to I know she volition concord upwardly for you lot in addition to me.
After my enemies are satisfied, inwards life or decease I shall come upwardly dorsum to you lot to serve fifty-fifty every bit I receive got served before. In life I shall go the same; inwards decease I shall go a terror to the foes of Negro liberty. If decease has power, so count on me inwards decease to go the existent Marcus Garvey I would similar to be. If I may come upwardly inwards an earthquake, or a cyclone, or a plague, or pestilence, or every bit God would receive got me, so go assure that I would never desert you lot in addition to brand your enemies triumph over you.
Would I non go to hell a 1000000 times for you? Would I non similar Macbeth’s ghost, walk the globe forever for you? Would I non lose the whole world in addition to eternity for you? Would I non outcry forever earlier the footstool of the Lord Omnipotent for you? Would I non go out a 1000000 deaths for you? Then, why go sad? Cheer up, in addition to go assure that if it takes a 1000000 years the sins of our enemies shall see the millionth generation of those that hinder in addition to oppress us.
If I go out inwards Atlanta my operate shall so only begin, but I shall live, inwards the physical or spiritual to reckon the hateful solar daytime of Africa’s glory. When I am dead wrap the drape of the Red, Black in addition to Green merely about me, for inwards the novel life I shall ascent with God’s grace in addition to approbation to Pb the millions upwardly the heights of triumph with the colors that you lot good know. Look for me inwards the whirlwind or the storm, await for me all merely about you, for, with God’s grace I shall come upwardly in addition to pick out with me countless millions of dark slaves who receive got died inwards America in addition to the West Indies in addition to the millions inwards Africa to assistance you lot inwards the larn by for liberty, liberty in addition to life.
The civilization of today every bit gone drunkard in addition to crazy with its powerfulness in addition to yesteryear such it seeks through injustice, fraud in addition to lies to shell the unfortunate. But if I am patently crushed yesteryear the organization of influence in addition to misdirected power, my drive shall ascent in ane lawsuit again to plague the conscience of the corrupt. For this in ane lawsuit again I am satisfied, in addition to for you, I repeat, I am glad to endure in addition to fifty-fifty die. Again, I tell cheer up, for ameliorate days are ahead. I shall write the history that volition inspire the millions that are coming in addition to leave of absence the posterity of our enemies to reckon with the host for the deeds of their fathers.
With God’s dearest blessings, I leave of absence you lot for a while.
From The Philosophy in addition to Opinions of Marcus Garvey, edited yesteryear Amy Jacques Garvey, p 237-239
Postscript
Ultimately, Garvey was deported from the U.S. to Jamaica. See Marcus Garvey v. United States, no. 8317, Ct. App., 2nd Cir., 2 Feb 1925, p. 1,699. In 1935, Garvey moved permanently to London where he died on June 10, 1940. In 1964, his torso was returned to Jamaica where he was declared a national hero.
Postscript
Ultimately, Garvey was deported from the U.S. to Jamaica. See Marcus Garvey v. United States, no. 8317, Ct. App., 2nd Cir., 2 Feb 1925, p. 1,699. In 1935, Garvey moved permanently to London where he died on June 10, 1940. In 1964, his torso was returned to Jamaica where he was declared a national hero.
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