Marcus Garvey

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home informed Marcus that she was being sent away to school in Scotland and that she was instructed by her parents “never to write or try to get in touch with me, for I was a ‘nigger.’” Although he was a good student, financial problems forced him to leave school at fourteen and become an apprentice. After helping organize a strike, Gravey was fired from his job. Garvey’s mind was clearly on politics and the need for organization rather than on his vocation.
In 1910 Garvey helped to found a political organization named the Nation Club. He created the Watchman, the first of his many newspapers. The failure of both ventures made evident the need for money to fun his political activities and Garvey joined the stream of West Indian workers migrating to Central and South America in search of better opportunities. He worked briefly on a banana plantation in Costa Rica and for a newspaper in Panama and then went to London, England. While there, he ...

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of months, he had founded over 30 branches of the UNIA
did more than talk. In 1918 he began publishing the Negro World, which soon became one of the most popular Black newspaper in the United States. He established the Black Star Line Steamship Company, the Negro Factories Corporation, the Black Cross Nurses, the African Legion, and the Black Eagle Flying Corps. Within two years, he raised more than ten million dollars. He formulated what he called the "Back to Africa" program for the resettlement of the Negro in his ancestral homeland.
In August 1920, Garvey staged a month-long convention in Harlem, New York, featuring band, receptions, rallies, and parades. They presented a policy ...

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