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The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) is a black nationalist fraternal organization founded by Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican immigrant to the United States, and his then-wife Amy Ashwood Garvey. [1]
Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr.was a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL, commonly known as UNIA) Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was
The back-to-Africa movement was a political movement in the 19th and 20th centuries advocating for a return of the descendants of African American slaves to the African continent. The small number of freed slaves who did settle in Africa—some under duress—initially faced brutal conditions, due to diseases to which they no longer had ...
For Garvey, the organization’s rapid expansion was the triumph of a long vision of concern over the state of the pan-African world. Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born in Jamaica in 1887, then still ...
Garvey, who was born in Jamaica in 1887, was a notable Pan-Africanist, believing that people of African descent around the world should be unified because of their alleged common interests.
The Black Star Line (1919−1922) was a shipping line incorporated by Marcus Garvey, the organizer of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), and other members of the UNIA. The shipping line was created to facilitate the transportation of goods and eventually African Americans throughout the African
Marcus Garvey, "Africa's Provisional President," is seen during the renaming of the ship from the "General G.W. Goethals" to the S.S Booker T. Washington, Jan. 25, 1925.
In the wake of the First World War, Garvey called for the formation of "a United Africa for the Africans of the World". [39] The UNIA promoted the view that Africa was the natural homeland of the African diaspora. [ 40 ]