What are facts about Marcus Garvey's life?

Answer 1

1. Marcus Garvey dedicated his life to the "uplifting" of Black Americans by creating the Universal Negro Improvement Association(UNIA). He believed the only way for Black Americans to ever become equal in the world was to have their own businesses, government, industrial enterprises, etc. 2. In 1920 with the help of the UNIA he held a 31 day march in Madison Square Garden in New York promoting the Back to Africa program. This was designed to enlighten the Black Americans to return to the homeland of Africa. 3. A fanatic visionary with the belief that the Black's only way to survive in America was through the foundation of a unified separatist empire in Africa. This idea in fact made many African government officials dislike him.

Answer 2

1. Marcus was born in St. Ann's Bay in Jamica

2. he was the youngest of a stonemason

3 he went to a local elementary school

4. At the age 14 he became an apprentice

5. in 1903 he went to the capital Kingston to work as a printer

6. in 1907 he took part in a strike where workers refuse to work unless certain demands

7. he soon became a periodical called a "Watchman"

8.1910 Gravey began a series

9.he died on June 10 1940

10. he died from 2 strokes

11.after death putatively wrote a mistaken and negative, abituary of himself in Chicago which stated he was broke, alone, and unpopular

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Marcus garvey is the ladys man of the 1880's

Answer 5

hers a very good man a a dependent black man. he is one of jamaicas first national heros

Answer 6

he is black