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Marcus Mosiah Garvey, one of the greatest African American leaders was born August 17, 1887 in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica, and spent his entire life in the service of his people. When Garvey turned 14 he left school and worked as a printer's apprentice. He participated in Jamaica's earliest nationalist organizations; he also traveled throughout Central America, and spent time in London, England, where he worked with the Sudanese-Egyptian nationalist, Duse Mohamed Ali. In 1916 Garvey was invited by Booker T. Washington to come to the United States in the hopes of establishing an industrial training school, but he arrived just after Washington died.

"Up! You mighty race, you can accomplish what you will."

The UNIA & ACL had been formed in Jamaica in 1914. Its motto was "One God, One Aim, One Destiny," and pledged itself to the redemption of Africa and the uplift of Black people everywhere. It aimed at race pride, self-reliance and economic independence.

Garvey went to jail in 1925 after being convicted of mail fraud which was related to the sale of stock in the Black Star line, but his sentence was reduced and he was deported to Jamaica two years later. Garvey eventually moved back to London, England, where he died in 1940. His body was returned to Jamaica in 1964.

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