- Name: Marcus Garvey
- Born: 08/17/1887
- Died: 06/10/1940 (52 years old)
- Known for: Activism, black nationalism, Pan-Africanism
H.E. The Right Honourable Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH (17 August 1887? 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL, commonly known as UNIA), through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa. Ideologically a black nationalist and Pan-Africanist, his ideas came to be known as Garveyism.
School: Birkbeck, University of London
Birth Place: Saint Ann’s Bay, Jamaica
Death Place: West Kensington, London, England, United Kingdom
Source: Wikipedia
