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Marcus Garvey

Jamaican activist and orator (1887–1940)

This article is about the political leader. For the album by Burning Spear, see Marcus Garvey (album).

Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr.ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL, commonly known as UNIA), through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa. Garvey was ideologically a black nationalist and Pan-Africanist. His ideas came to be known as Garveyism.

Garvey was born into a moderately prosperous Afro-Jamaican family in Saint Ann's Bay and was apprenticed into the print trade as a teenager. Working in Kingston, he became involved in trade unionism. He later lived briefly in Costa Rica, Panama, and England. On returning to Jamaica, he founded the UNIA in 1914. In 1916, he moved to the United States and established a UNIA branch in New York City's Harlem district. Emphasising unity between Africans and the African diaspora, he camp

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Dr Julius W. Garvey: “By education, we transmit culture”

Speaking at the Black Action Defense Committee Memorial Scholarship and Recognition Awards last Sunday

By Lincoln DePradine

Black people ought not to give up their culture for someone else’s because “culture is an instrument of power,’’ according to Jamaica-born surgeon and medical professor Dr Julius W. Garvey.

Garvey, delivering an address at a virtual event last Sunday of the Black Action Defense Committee (BADC), also underscored the importance of an African-centred education, and pointed to the link between education and culture.

“Remember, always, intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden,’’ said Garvey, son of the late Afrocentric activist, human rights leader and entrepreneur, Marcus Mosiah Garvey.

“By education, we transmit culture,’’ he added. “We, Africans, have a spiritual culture and when we repair our cultural breach, we would have liberated our minds from mental slavery; restored our self-esteem and self-confidence; and opened up the infinite resources of our creative intel

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As the annual observance of Black Press Week continues in the District, one of the always-anticipated events, the Black Press Archives and Gallery of Distinguished Black Publishers Enshrinement Ceremony, will honor two individuals whose forefathers played critical roles in the advancement of the Black Press and the crusade for racial equality and economic advancement for African Americans: the Rev. Frances Murphy Draper, the great-granddaughter of John Henry Murphy, Sr., a former slave and the founder of The Afro-American (1892); and Dr. Julius W. Garvey, the second-born son of Marcus Garvey who founded the Negro World in New York City in 1918.

Dr. Garvey, a surgeon and medical professor, born Sept. 17, 1933 in Kingston, Jamaica (to Garvey and activist Amy Jacques Garvey), spoke to The Washington Informer in an exclusive interview about his life, both before and since his retirement, and the continued relevance of the teachings of his father who, among his many noted accomplishments, founded the United Negro Improvement Association and has long been heralded as the father of the