Marcus Garvey

Among black Americans, emphasizing their African origins and identity, their pride in being black, their desire to control their own communities, and sometimes the desire to establish a black nation in Africa or some part of the United States. The exact origins of black nationalist movements are lost in the largely unwritten history of blacks…

A group of people who had at one point held no power and position in society were now thriving in the nation, as they spread their culture and ideas. It was the start of an era known as the Harlem Renaissance. This was a more than a literary movement, it was a cultural movement based…

Garvey, Washington and Dubois Marcus Garvey, 1887-1940, b. St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica, W.E.B. Dubois, 1868–1963, b. Great Barrington, Massachusetts and Booker T. Washington b. 1856–1915, b. Franklin Co., Virginia were foremost in championing the Black agenda.  Their advocacies for the advancement of Black culture and economics are the foundation of what advocacies are in our…

I believe one of the most influential African Americans of all time is Marcus Garvey. Marcus Garvey achieved accomplishments in not just one, but many areas. His accomplishments ranged from a worldwide Black political organization, The Untied Negro Improvement Association, to the first, and to this day the largest Black-owned multinational businesses, the Black Star…

Malcolm X remains one of the most influential African America whose contributions to the civil rights movement are still celebrated.  Born in 1925 in Nebraska, Malcolm X went ahead to become a critical and vehement advocate of the rights of blacks against the systemic discrimination meted out against them.  This paper shall examine the life…

“MARCUS GARVEY”             Marcus Garvey is one of the most known activists for the rights of blacks in the United States and abroad and is considered one of those figures who shaped the Civil Rights Movement in the XX century. His impact on African Americans was tremendous both in his lifetime and after his death….