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Article: Marcus Garvey: August 17, 1887. (Black nationalist was born on this date in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica)(This Week in Black History)(Brief Article)
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- Jet
- Article date:
- August 19, 1996
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August 17, 1887 --
Marcus Garvey, orator, organizer and Black nationalist, was born on this day in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica. During the 1920s he turned the world of Black America upside down with his messages of self-help and self-pride. He led a back-to-Africa movement, where he encouraged Blacks ...
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...Marcus Garvey celebration captures ... homage to the legacy of Marcus Garvey. Poets and rappers ... marked the 14th annual Marcus Garvey Day Celebration at Milwaukee ... the first important black nationalist movement in the United ...
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