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Black History
It is not possible to address the black history without mentioning the impacts that Marcus Garvey had on the African community not just in America but across the world. He is on icon of libertarianism for the oppressed and marginalized in the society (Leeuwen, 2017). Born in Jamaica, on the 17th of August 1887, in St. Ann’s Bay, Garvey was an entrepreneur, orator, publisher and a political leader who advocated for Black Nationalism along with Pan-Africanism. He was the last of the eleven children born to his father Marcus Garvey, Sr. and his mother Sarah Jane Richards (Biography.com, 2017). His father had been a stone mason while his mother was a domestic worker and sometimes used to farm. It is to this effect that Garvey, founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association along with the African Communities League (Histor
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