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Marcus Garvey
Garvey in 1924
Born	Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr. (1887-08-17)17 August 1887 St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica
Died	10 June 1940(1940-06-10) (aged 52) London, England
Occupation(s)	Publisher, Journalist
Known for	Activism, National Hero of Jamaica
Parent(s)	Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Sr. Sarah Jane Richards

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Main doctrines	Jah Cannabis use Dreadlocks Ital Iyaric Lion of Judah Livity Zion
Central figures	Haile Selassie I Jesus Menen Asfaw Marcus Garvey
Key scriptures	Bible Kebra Nagast My Life and Ethiopia's Progress The Promised Key Holy Piby Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Supremacy
Mansions	Bobo Ashanti Nyabinghi Twelve Tribes of Israel
Festivals	Shashamane Grounation Day Reasoning
Notable individuals	Leonard Howell Joseph Hibbert Archibald Dunkley Mortimer Planno Vernon Carrington Charles Edwards Bob Marley Peter Tosh
Society	Relation to Judaism Persecution In the United States
Related	Chalice Ethiopian Christianity Ites Gold and Green Rastacap Reggae Roots reggae

Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH (17 August 1887– 10 June 1940) was a publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, Black Nationalist, Pan-Africanist, and orator. Marcus Garvey was founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). Prior to the twentieth century, leaders such as Prince Hall, Martin Delany, Edward Wilmot Blyden, and Henry Highland Garnet advocated the involvement of the African diaspora in African affairs. Garvey was unique in advancing a Pan-African philosophy to inspire a global mass movement focusing on Africa known as Garveyism. Promoted by the UNIA as a movement of African Redemption, Garveyism would eventually inspire others, ranging from the Nation of Islam, to the Rastafari movement (which proclaims Garvey as a prophet). The intention of the movement was for those of African ancestry to "redeem" Africa and for the European colonial powers to leave it. His essential ideas about Africa were stated in an editorial in the Negro World titled “African Fundamentalism” where he wrote:

Our union must know no clime, boundary, or nationality… let us hold together under all climes and in every country…

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1. Encyclopedia Britannica Online. "Marcus Garvey." Retrieved on 2008-02-20.
2. ^ "The "Back to Africa" Myth". UNIA-ACL website. 14 July 2005. Retrieved 1 April 2007.
3. Garvey, Marcus (1986). The philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey or Africa for the Africans. Dover (Mass.): Majority Press. p. 163. ISBN 0-912469-24-2. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)