Marcus Garvey, the leader of an early 20th-century mass movement of black Americans, was born here:
Marcus Garvey, the leader of one of the largest mass movements of blacks in American history, was born in Jamaica on August 17, 1887. In 1914, after two years of study in London, Garvey formed the Universal Negro Improvement and Conservation Association (U.N.I.A.) in Jamaica, a group that worked for black emigration to Africa and promoted racial pride, education and black business activity. In 1916 Garvey went to New York and began organizing U.N.I.A. branches in America. At his height of popularity, Garvey had several million followers. The organization waned in the 1920s with Garvey?s arrest and conviction and imprisonment on mail fraud charges. Marcus Garvey died in London on June 10, 1940.
