MARCUS GARVEY 1887-1940
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- MARCUS GARVEY 1887-1940
- BELIEFS
- Politically radicalised by his support for a printers strike when he was an apprentice.
- Strong believer in pan-africanism and a separate African state.
- His slogan was 'Africa for the Africans at home and abroad'
- Claimed that God and Jesus were black, and set himself up to president of the Republic of Africa with a Napoleonic aristocracy of dukes and parades.
- SUCCESSES
- 1912: Set up the Universal ***** Improvement Association (UNIA) in Jamaica.
- Claimed that it had 4 million members, making it the largest organisation.
- 1916: Set up a shipping company called the Black Star line to trade with Africans worldwide.
- Saw the importance of economic development: set up the ***** Factories Corporation to promote manufacture and trade among Africans.
- He collected the considerable sum of $10 million and attracted very large amounts of support.
- 1912: Set up the Universal ***** Improvement Association (UNIA) in Jamaica.
- FAILURES
- His commercial schemes collapsed when he accused of and imprisoned for fraud.
- Returned to Jamaica after being imprisoned and set up a scheme were 12 million African Americans would be taking to Liberia.
- This came to nothing and he died in 1940.
- Due to economic failures he was seen as a isolated and bizarre figure.
- BELIEFS
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