Garvey, Marcus

Born on the island of Jamaica , then the British colonial possession. He attended school until the age of 14, after which he was engaged in self-education. On August 1, 1914, together with his comrade, he founded the "World Association for the Advancement of Blacks" in Jamaica, but having not achieved much success, he left for the USA and founded several branches of the association there. In 1922, Garvey was convicted of financial fraud and spent five years in prison, after which he lost all his authority in the Negro movement.

He died in 1940 in London, being in political isolation. Ironically, he died from a repeated massive stroke immediately after reading his own obituary, published by mistake in the Chicago Defender newspaper, which stated that he died "in poverty, loneliness, having lost its former popularity" ( broke, alone and unpopular ), at the same time, his political views and achievements were ignored.

He attached great importance to the racial purity of blacks and called on American citizens of African descent to move to Africa . On the basis of racial ethnocentrism and the idea of ​​the relocation of all African-Americans to Africa, even the openly racist Ku Klux Klan organization became close. In his speeches, he predicted the coronation of the black king on the African continent, thanks to which the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I was proclaimed adherents of Rastafarianism as the embodiment of Jah (God).

• History of Rastafarianism
• Garvey Marcus - article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .
• Biographical article