Marcus Garvey

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The paper relates that Marcus Garvey was as controversial and disdained as he was respected and revered. The paper discusses how Garvey launched the Universal Negro Improvement and Conservation Association (UNIA) and the African Communities League. The paper explores his legacy and maintains that Garvey should be remembered for reminding those who were oppressed and enslaved that they were indeed equal to anyone else. The paper looks at his speeches and shows how he demonstrated to millions of disheartened individuals that they should be proud of themselves and their roots.

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"Garvey's experiences as a young man led up to his later actions. He was born in St. Ann's Bay in Jamaica in 1887, attending elementary school and then, at 14 years old, receiving private tuition as an apprentice in his godfather's print shop. In 1906, Garvey left for Kingston and became a master printer and foreman. He then went to a banana plantation in Costa Rica, where he observed the horrible conditions under which his fellow blacks worked. He then traveled to the Panama Canal Zone, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Colombia and Venezuela, working and observing the hardships of blacks. He became determined to change their lives for the better. Garvey returned to Jamaica distraught at the situation in Central America and asked the Jamaica's colonial government to help improve the life of West Indian workers. There was no response from anyone in the government (Garvey website)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Cronon, E.D. (1955). Black Moses: The Story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
• Garvey Website. "Look for Me in the Whirlwind" Retrieved December 15, 2006. http://www.marcusgarvey.com/
• Jacques-Garvey, A. (Ed) (1923). Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey. New York: Universal Publishing House.
• Lewis, D.L. (1994) W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919. New York: Henry Holt & Company.
• Miller, K. (1927) After Marcus Garvey---What? Contemporary Review 131: 492

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