Marcus Garvey - Wikipedia
Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist. 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.
Marcus Garvey’s Pardon, 85 Years After His Death - Jamaicans.com
18 hours ago · Marcus Garvey, the pioneering leader of the Pan-African movement and Jamaica’s first national hero, received a posthumous pardon from U.S. President Joe Biden on January 19, 2025.The pardon, achieved through decades of advocacy and the successful lobbying of the Congressional Black Caucus, not only rights a historical wrong but reaffirms Garvey’s enduring influence on global Black liberation.
Congresswoman welcomes posthumous pardon of Marcus Garvey
2 days ago · WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) — Caribbean-American Democratic Congresswoman, Yvette Clarke, has welcomed the posthumous pardon of Jamaica’s first national hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, by the ...
Marcus Garvey | Biography, Beliefs, & Facts | Britannica
Jan 12, 2000 · Marcus Garvey (born August 17, 1887, St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica—died June 10, 1940, London, England) was a charismatic Black leader who organized the first important American Black nationalist movement (1919–26), based in New York City’s Harlem.
WATCH: Mayor Swaby welcomes posthumous pardon of Marcus Garvey
1 day ago · KINGSTON, Jamaica—The Mayor of Kingston, Andrew Swaby, has thanked former United States president Joe Biden for pardoning Marcus Garvey, Jamaica’s first national hero and former councillor at ...
Diaspora hails long-overdue pardon for Marcus Garvey
3 days ago · “As we approach our nation’s observance of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr Day, I’m extraordinarily grateful for President Biden’s action today to posthumously grant clemency to a true national hero of Jamaica, The Most Honourable Marcus Garvey. Garvey was a Jamaican-born pan-Africanist leader who led one of the earliest black civil rights ...
CARICOM welcomes posthumous pardon of Marcus Garvey - Jamaica …
3 days ago · Clarke, the daughter of Jamaican immigrants and Brooklyn representative, had led multiple calls for Garvey’s exoneration, arguing the conviction was a result of governmental misconduct aimed at ...
President Biden pardons Jamaica national hero Marcus Garvey
3 days ago · Pan-African leader Marcus Mosiah Garvey, convicted of mail fraud in 1923 in the U.S., is buried at National Heroes Park in Kingston. His remains were brought to Jamaica in 1964 after his death in ...
Biden posthumously pardons Jamaica's National Hero Marcus Garvey
3 days ago · United States President Joe Biden has issued a posthumous pardon for Jamaica’s first National Hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, more than 101 years after his 1923 conviction for mail fraud—a case long criticised for its racial and political overtones.
Marcus Mosiah Garvey – Jamaica Information Service
Jamaica’s first National Hero was born in St. Ann’s Bay, St. Ann, on August 17, 1887. He was conferred with the Order of the National Hero in 1969 as per the second schedule of the National Honours and Awards Act. In his youth Garvey migrated to Kingston, where he worked as a printer and later published a small paper “The Watchman”.