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They believed that Garvey's ideas diverted African Americans from working on current racial issues and change in the United States. Randolph and Owen started the "Garvey Must Go" campaign in 1922, with the goal of getting Garvey deported. This appeared to contradict their original mission statement.
Several prominent black Americans—Chandler Owen, A. Philip Randolph, William Pickens, and Robert Bagnall—launched the "Garvey Must Go" campaign in the wake of the revelation. [241] Many of these critics played to nativist ideas by emphasising Garvey's Jamaican identity and sometimes calling for his deportation. [242]
Garvey supported the Back-to-Africa movement, which had been influenced by Edward Wilmot Blyden, who migrated to Liberia in 1850. [42] However, Garvey did not believe that all African Americans should migrate to Africa. Instead, he believed that an elite group, namely those African Americans who were of the purest African blood, should do so.
A group of 21 House Democrats signed a letter urging the president to exonerate former civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, according to a statement sent by the lawmakers to ABC News on Monday.
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Ultimately, Schiff and Garvey were the top two vote-getters, garnering roughly 31.5% of the vote, while the two other leading Democratic challengers, Reps. Katie Porter and Barbara Lee, fell behind.
They wrote and sent a "Garvey Must Go" letter to the U.S. Department of Justice, arguing against Marcus Garvey for what they considered mismanagement of his organization. Feeling later that Garvey's sentence was excessive and racially motivated, in August 1927 Pickens wrote a letter to the New Republic that called for Garvey's release from prison.
Garvey’s campaign has spent just $1.4 million through mid-February. Schiff’s ads, which make no mention of Porter, describe Garvey as “too conservative for California.” They appear to have ...