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Biography of Marcus Garvey

Marcus Garvey, the national hero of Jamaica, was born on August 17, 1887, in Jamaica.

Despite attending school until the age of 14, he primarily pursued self-education. Between 1912 and 1914, he traveled through Central America and then lived in London for a period of time.

Garvey marcus biography of mahatma

Upon returning to Jamaica, he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) on August 1, 1914, along with a group of comrades. The main goal of the UNIA was to establish a state in Africa with self-governance for people of African descent.

Failing to achieve significant success in Jamaica, Garvey moved to the United States, where he established branches of the UNIA in Harlem and several other African-American ghettos in the northern part of the country. He published the newspaper "Negro World" and founded the Negro Factories Corporation.

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