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In the 20th century, the Jamaican political activist and black nationalist Marcus Garvey, members of the Rastafari movement, and other African Americans supported the concept, but few actually left the United States.
Marcus Mosiah Garvey (ur. 17 sierpnia 1887 w Saint Ann na Jamajce, zm. 10 czerwca 1940 w Londynie) – ideolog czarnego nacjonalizmu (garveizm), uznawany za twórcę podstawowych elementów doktryny ruchu społeczno-religijnego Rastafari, choć sam nigdy się z nim nie utożsamiał.
To this end, the movement offered in its “Back to Africa” campaign a powerful message of black pride and economic self-sufficiency. In Garvey’s 1921 speech, “If You Believe the Negro Has a Soul,” he emphasized the inevitability of racial antagonism and the hopelessness of interracial coexistence.
Garvey's belief in racial separatism, his advocacy of the migration of African Americans to Africa, and his opposition to miscegenation endeared him to the KKK, which supported many of the same policies.
3 paź 2024 · Marcus Garvey (born August 17, 1887, St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica—died June 10, 1940, London, England) was a charismatic Black leader who organized the first important American Black nationalist movement (1919–26), based in New York City’s Harlem.
Marcus Garvey, c.1920 © Garvey was a Jamaican-born black nationalist who created a 'Back to Africa' movement in the United States. He became an inspirational figure for later civil rights...
This essay re-examines Garvey’s doctrines of “Back to Africa” and “Africa for the Africans, at home and abroad” as catalysts in the evolution of Africa’s political and economic unification that includes the Diaspora as a constituent element of the African Union. The essay is grounded in a proposition that the
