Marcus Garvey

Title: Marcus Garvey
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Marcus Garvey

MARCUS GARVEY Marcus Garvey was born in 1887 on the Caribbean island of Jamaica. Not much is known about his younger years except that he went to school until the age of fourteen. Soon after he started a job as a printers apprentice in the year 1907. After leading an unsuccessful printers strike in Jamaica, he edited several newspapers in Costa Rica and Panama. After traveling to London in 1912 to spend some studying time there on African …showed first 75 words of 674 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 674 total…in an effort to come back to Africa. Although he had a very strong influence for a long time, it kind of died down a little bit after a few legal problems and his ideas of black unity faded. BIBLIOGRAPHY Marcus Garvey: Life and Lessons: UCLA. 1995. www.isop.ucla.edu.life.htm Pederson, Jay. African American Almanac. Vol. 2, USA-UXL, 1994. Reed, Jim. Influences of African Americans. Vol. 1, New Jersey-UXL, 1992. Straub, Deborah. V1, ed. African American Voices

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