Activist Marcus Garvey and his namesake ideology, Garveyism, advocated for Black separatism and nationalism. Read about his beliefs, quotes, death, and more.

Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican civil rights activist, the founding father of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), and an owner of the Black Star Line shipping company.

Successive governments of Jamaica had called for Garvey to be pardoned for 40 years, making the first appeal to Ronald Reagan and the last to Biden. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Garvey’s descendants, Jamaican immigrants and Black activists joined the call for a posthumous pardon.

The Caribbean Community (Caricom) on Sunday expressed “its profound gratitude” to the outgoing Biden administration after it gave a posthumous pardon to Jamaica’s  national hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey,

It was the Great Depression and the family had been living in London after Marcus Garvey - the prominent 20th century Black Nationalist - was convicted of one count of mail fraud, which forced him to leave the U.

Robert Montague says the decision of U.S. President Joe Biden to issue a posthumous pardon to Jamaica’s first National Hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey is a “step in the right direction”. The pardon was announced on Sunday,

"His life and work continue to inspire and influence both within and beyond the Caribbean," said CARICOM Chair & Barbados PM, Mia Motley

The widespread favorable media response to the pardon speaks to the enduring usefulness of Garvey’s brand of identity politics to the powers that be.

President Biden on Sunday pardoned Marcus Garvey, one of the first Black civil rights leaders, more than 80 years after Garvey’s death.

President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned civil rights leader and Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey, along with four others, and commuted two sentences.

America is a country,” Pres. Joe Biden said in a statement announcing the pardon alongside four others, “built on the promise of second chances.”

In this August 1922 file photo, Marcus Garvey is shown in a military uniform ... the increasingly popular leader who spoke of racial pride. After Garvey was convicted, he was deported to Jamaica, where he was born. He died in 1940. The Rev. Martin Luther ...