Category: Marcus Garvey

Ever since the African descended peoples of the world were given their relative freedom from slavery, there has been major discourse over how this newfound liberty should be maintained. Especially in America, where the reformation era was one of the most liberating times to have darker skin pigmentations, ideas of how to keep the African…

Marcus Garvey was an important black leader and organizer of the Pan-Africanism movement, which sought to unify and connect black people from all over the world towards a common cause. He faced much difficulties throughout his lifetime, including being imprisoned and also survived multiple assassination attempts. Throughout his life, Garvey encountered much unethical and social…

Poverty became rampant in black communities due to wage disparities between blacks and whites. Garvey noticed this and used his extraordinary personality to convince African Americans to start investing in black owned businesses after arriving in America. Garvey’s poetic words of nationalism and back-to-Africa aspirations made these capitalistic economic investments possible. Garvey was successful in…