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Jamaica: Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), Pan Africanist and Jamaican national hero, dressed as the 'Provisional President of Africa', New York,1923

Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., (17 August 1887 10 June 1940), was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a proponent of the Pan-Africanism movement, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. He also founded the Black Star Line, a shipping and passenger line which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands.<br/><br/>. Garvey advanced a Pan-African philosophy to inspire a global mass movement and economic empowerment focusing on Africa known as 'Garveyism'. Garveyism intended persons of African ancestry in the diaspora to 'redeem' the nations of Africa and for the European colonial powers to leave the continent.
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Jamaica: Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), Pan Africanist and Jamaican national hero, dressed as the 'Provisional President of Africa', New York,1923
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Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., (17 August 1887 10 June 1940), was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a proponent of the Pan-Africanism movement, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. He also founded the Black Star Line, a shipping and passenger line which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands.

. Garvey advanced a Pan-African philosophy to inspire a global mass movement and economic empowerment focusing on Africa known as 'Garveyism'. Garveyism intended persons of African ancestry in the diaspora to 'redeem' the nations of Africa and for the European colonial powers to leave the continent.
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3500 x 5057 px | 50.6 MB
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29.6 x 42.8 cm | 11.7 x 16.9 in (300 dpi)
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