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Text Box: Text Box: Garvey, Marcus (1887-1940), black nationalist leader, who  created a “Back to Africa” movement in the United States. Garvey was born the youngest of 11 children in Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica. He left school at the age of 14 to serve as a printer's apprentice. A few years later, he took a job at a printing company in Kingston, where in 1907 he led a printers' strike for higher wages. Garvey then traveled to South America and Central America. In 1912 he went to England, where he became interested in African history and culture. He returned to Jamaica in 1914 and shortly thereafter founded the  Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and the African Communities League. In 1916 Garvey moved to the United States and settled in New York City. There he incorporated the UNIA and started a weekly  newspaper, the Negro World. A persuasive orator and author,  Garvey urged American blacks to be proud of their race and  preached their return to Africa, their ancestral homeland. To  this end he founded the Black Star Line in 1919 to provide steamship transportation, and the Negro Factories Corporation to encourage black economic independence. Garvey attracted thousands of supporters and claimed two million members for the UNIA. He suffered a series of economic disasters, however, and in 1922 he was arrested for mail fraud. Garvey served as his own defense attorney at his trial, was convicted, and went to prison in 1925. His sentence was commuted two years later,  but he was immediately deported to Jamaica. Unable to  resurrect the UNIA or regain his influence, Garvey moved to London, where he died in relative obscurity. "Garvey, Marcus," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2000 http://www.encarta.msn.com © 1997-2000 Microsoft Corporation. All  rights reserved.
	Marcus Garvey founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in 1914 to promote the improvement of  living conditions for Africans and people of African descent  in North and South America, the Caribbean, and Europe. In this quote, from a speech given in 1921, Garvey explains the goal 
of the UNIA. The text of the quote is: "We of the Universal Negro Improvement Association are raising the cry of 'Africa for the Africans'—those at home and those abroad. There are 400 million Africans in the world who have Negro blood 
coursing through their veins. And we believe that the time has come to unite these 400 million people for the one common  purpose of bettering their condition."  Culver Pictures; "Explanation of the Objects of the Universal  Negro Improvement Association", written and delivered by Marcus Garvey. Courtesy of the UCLA Marcus Garvey & UNIA  Papers Project. All rights reserved. Culver Pictures;  "Explanation of the Objects of the Universal Negro Improvement  Association", written and delivered by Marcus Garvey. Courtesy 
of the UCLA Marcus Garvey & UNIA Papers Project. All rights Reserved.

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