Here at Into America, we love exploring the past to better understand what's happening

today, digging into different forces that led us to this moment.

And one of my favorite ways to do that is to talk to the people who descended from the

giants who shaped our history.

Well, I'm Julius Garvey.

I'm the second son of Marcus Garvey.

Our tour of Schumberg was my grandfather.

I am the son of his seventh son.

I grew up just knowing about Robert Smalls and hearing stories.

My grandmother was Robert's granddaughter.

The son of Pan Africanist leader, Marcus Garvey, the grandson of the legendary historian and

archivist Arturo Schumberg, and the great great grandson of Reconstruction Era Congressman

Robert Smalls.

I've had the honor of speaking with each of these men on our show.

Even when you're a child of Marcus Garvey, world famous for his activism and push for

black unity across the globe, he's still in so many ways just your dad.

Dr. Julius Garvey, though, recalls the moment when he realized his father was something

more.

I was in school at Wilma's Boy School in Jamaica, and we had a cafeteria where we'd go for

lunch.

And the lady who was serving the lunch leaned over and said, oh, you know, your father

was a great man.

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