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You are now listening to Black History is American History.

I'm William Matthews and I'm propaganda.

I'm Nikki Black and I'm Anjah Henry.

Today's moment in Black History, Marcus Garvey.

Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. was a Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur,

and orator.

He was the founder and first president general of the Universal Negro Improvement Association,

commonly known as the UNIA, through which he declared himself, provisional president

of Africa.

Audiologically, a black nationalist and pan-Africanist, his ideas came to be known as Garveyism.

He was born to a moderately prosperous Afro-Jamaican family in Saint Anne's Bay, colony of Jamaica

in 1916.

He moved to the United States and established a UNIA branch in New York City's Harlem

District.

Emphasizing unity between Africans and the African diaspora, he campaigned for an end

to European colonial rule across Africa and the political unification of the continent.

He envisioned a unified Africa as a one-party state governed by himself that would

enact laws to ensure black racial purity.

Although he never visited the continent, he was committed to the back-to-Africa movement,

arguing that many African Americans should migrate there.

His black separatist views and his collaboration with white racist groups like the Ku Klux Klan

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