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Marcus Garvey
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr.
,
ONH
(17 August 188710 June 1940), was a Jamaican political leader,
publisher
,
journalist
,
entrepreneur
, and
orator
who was a staunch proponent of the
Black Nationalism
and
Pan-Africanism
movements, to which end he founded the
Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
(
UNIA-ACL
). He founded the
Black Star Line
, which promoted the return of the
African diaspora
to their ancestral lands.
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