On July 20, 1914, Marcus Garvey, at the age of twenty-eight, founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association. His co-founder was Amy Ashwood, who would later become his first wife. The U.N.I.A ...

Edgar Hoover, who hired Black agents to infiltrate Garvey’s UNIA, leading to his conviction and eventual deportation. Marcus Garvey was a prominent orator and activist who advocated for Black ...

In one of his final moves as President, Joe Biden posthumously pardoned Marcus ... “Garvey founded the United Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA) to promote ...

Economically, Garvey’s program went beyond small community outlets. He appealed to UNIA members and the Black community in general to collectively invest in larger ventures. In 1920, he founded ...

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. In 1923 ...

March 28: Garvey addresses a Liberty Hall meeting, decrying the enemies of his organization, and announces a purge of Universal Negro Improvement Association officers. April 9: Marcus Garvey Sr.

Jamaican national hero Marcus Mosiah Garvey, who continues to get much respect in the island country and diaspora communities around the world, will be recognized on Aug. 20 at a ceremony in the ...

In the course of making Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind, filmmaker Stanley Nelson interviewed several people who were members of the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Garvey's ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The quest for a U.S. presidential pardon for revolutionary Black nationalist leader Marcus Mosiah Garvey ...

In 1916, Marcus Garvey moved to the United States, taking his organization with him, and founded a UNIA branch in Harlem, New York. His first attempt at spreading his views publicly was a disaster.

Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association form a critical link in black America's centuries-long struggle for freedom, justice, and equality. As the leader of the largest ...