Marcus Garvey
Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey did several things to advance black interests in the world, from founding the Universal Negro Improvement Association to launching a huge black economic development campaignencouraging thousands of people to buy from black businesses and employ blacks. He published “The Negro World” newspaper, one of the first to have a page specifically for women. Garveyism was a term named for Garvey that referred to people of African ancestry in the diaspora who believed in “redeeming” the nations of Africa and who wanted European colonial powers to leave the continent.
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