Essays on Marcus Garvey

Martin Luther King Jr., Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X are three very well known social activists. They had one main purpose, to fight for racial freedom and justice in the 1960’s when racism was at it’s all time high. Especially in many small southern towns...

Marcus Garvey once said “Emancipate yourself form mental slavery none but ourselves can free our mind.” In this book readers have the opportunity to learn about one of the greatest Civil rights Activist Marcus Garvey. One can say that he was the spark that lit...

MARCUS GARVEY Marcus Garvey was born in 1887 on the Caribbean island of Jamaica. Not much is known about his younger years except that he went to school until the age of fourteen. Soon after he started a job as a printers apprentice in the...

In the late 1910s and 1920s United States was under the air of racial violence. As bad as it sounds it was one of the worst situations of its time. In these circumstances, Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was formed by Marcus Garvey’s who wanted...

Introduction Every generation is granted its share of leaders; those empowered to empower others and motivated to establish a better world for generations to come. Marcus Garvey was one of those people. He was an activist, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator of unity amongst black people....

Garveyism was a movement way ahead of its time. Jamaican born, Marcus Garvey was responsible for the American Black Nationalist and Pan Africanism Movement in the 1920s. Garvey’s mother Sarah Jane Richardson was a great influencer in Garvey’s young life, she wanted more for him...

Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. born on the 17th of August in 1887 was born to a tolerably prosperous Afro-Jamaican family in Saint Ann’s Bay, Colony of Jamaica and apprenticed into the print exchange as a young person. Garvey was a Jamaican political dissident, distributor, speaker,...

The biography of Marcus Garvey by Rupert Lewis, gives account of his humble origins and the influences and developments which transported him from the state of a young unworldly schoolboy in colonial Jamaica to an international icon in the movement for black empowerment. Rupert Lewis...

Born in St Ann’s Bay, Jamaica in 1887, Marcus Garvey grew to be the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement and Conservation Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) after travelling many times and seeing first-hand how “Negroes lived, politically and otherwise”. Garvey led one of,...

Marcus Mosiah Garvey Junior was an exceptional writer, advocate for black rights and political activist during his time on earth. Most of his noteworthy actions were captured by that of Rupert Lewis, a retired professor and former teacher of political thought at the University of...

Black Nationalism is defined as a type of ‘group of militant blacks who advocate separatism from the whites and the formation of self-governing black communities.’ In the tradition of radicalism, Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey advocates for political and social reform for descendants of the...

Rupert Lewis was born February 24th, 1947 in Jamaica. He is a renowned author and Professor Emeritus of Political Thought at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica. He is a proud public educator on the work of Marcus Garvey and the Garvey...