Marcus Garvey
(1887-1940)
Jamaican activist and orator
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Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL, commonly known as UNIA), through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa. Ideologically a black nationalist and Pan-Africanist, his ideas came to be known as Garveyism.
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17 August 1887 St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica
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| Died |
10 June 1940 (aged 52) West Kensington, London, England, United Kingdom
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| Zodiac | Leo |
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