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"Marcus Mosiah Garvey, b. Jamaica 1887, d. 1940, organized the black nationalist movement of the 1920's in the United States. Garvey went to New York City in 1916 and recruited followers for his Universal Negro Improvement Assosiation. Its program was to unite all black peoples through the establishment in Africa of a country and government of their own. garvey was a magnetic speaker and led his followers in parades through Harlem. In 1921 he claimed...
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