“Look for Me in the Whirlwind”: Marcus Garvey and His Legacy of Pan-Africanism
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MadameNoire
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr. was the last of 11 children born to Marcus Garvey, Sr. and Sarah Jane Richards in Jamaica. In 1914, Garvey and Amy Ashwood (who later became his wife for a brief period of time) formed the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (U.N.I.A.) with the goal of unifying “all the Negro peoples of the world into one great body and to establish a country and government absolutely on their own.” The U.N.I.A. is the largest Pan-African movement ever. At its height, the association had between one and eleven million members worldwide, with existence in nearly 40 U.S. states domestically and over 40 countries internationally.
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