Marcus Garvey

(noun)

Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr. (1887–1940) was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements.

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  • Marcus Garvey

    • Marcus Garvey, a prominent Jamaican, led a Back-to-Africa movement that promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands.
    • Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the black nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements.
    • Washington, Garvey arrived in the U.S. in 1916 to give a lecture tour.
    • A movement of black opposition to Garvey that came to be known as the “Garvey Must Go” Campaign aimed to reveal Garvey as a fraud.
    • The “Garvey Must Go” movement also revealed that Garvey had met secretly with Ku Klux Klan leader Edward Young Clarke in June of 1922.

  • The Rise of Garveyism

    • Marcus Garvey, a political leader and orator, was a proponent of black nationalism and Pan-Africanism.
    • Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the black nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements .
    • Garvey in 1924.
    • Marcus Garvey's philosophies, known as "Garveyism," were influential during the early 20th century.
    • Describe Marcus Garvey's advancement of a Pan-African philosophy and his support of a Back-to-Africa movement.

  • The "New Negro"

    • The middle-class leadership of NAACP and Urban League were deeply suspicious of the flamboyant and demagogic Marcus Garvey, who in turn saw Du Bois and others as dark-skinned whites.

  • The "Nadir of Race Relations" and the Great Migration

    • Du Bois and Marcus Garvey.

  • Black Power

    • For Carmichael, Black Power was the power of African Americans to unite as a political force and create their own institutions apart from white-dominated ones, an idea first suggested in the 1920s by political leader and orator Marcus Garvey.
    • Like Garvey, Carmichael became an advocate of black separatism, arguing that African Americans should live apart from whites and solve their problems for themselves.

  • The Harlem Renaissance

    • The Harlem Renaissance was more than a literary or artistic movement, it possessed a certain sociological development—particularly through a new racial consciousness—through racial integration, as seen in the Back to Africa movement led by Marcus Garvey.

  • The Migratory Stream

    • Missionary Marcus Whitman led the wagons on the last leg.