marcus garvey

• Marcus Garvey lived


  1887 to 1940
• Marcus Garvey


  Jamaican politician, writer and businessman, nationalist thinker, founder of black nationalism
• In 1937, Marcus Garvey published a book called "Message to the People"
• Marcus Garvey set up a journal referred to as "Negro World"
• Black pride


  The idea that African people should be proud of their race and see beauty in their own kind
• Pan-Africanism


  The idea that African people across the world will be one people and to progress they need to put aside their cultural and ethnic differences
• Garveyism


  The idea of Africa throwing off colonialism and creating a new free nation in Africa and overcoming what he saw as white propaganda that had divided the African people in the past
• Marcus Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association
• Marcus Garvey had an interest in the Liberia project and in promoting rights in the USA
• Marcus Garvey created businesses to help create economic independence for the black population
• Marcus Garvey inspired Rastafarians and Malcolm X