This document provides an overview of Marcus Garvey's life and accomplishments. It discusses his childhood in Jamaica, his move to the United States where he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association, and his Back to Africa movement advocating for black empowerment and black nationalism. It also describes the Black Star Line shipping company he created to facilitate transportation for African Americans back to Africa, which ultimately went bankrupt contributing to his decline. The document concludes with some tributes given to Garvey for his work advocating for black rights and empowerment.

1. MARCUS GARVEYThe Black Moses

2. ContextGarvey’schildhood and youthGarvey’stheory and prophecyThe Black Star Line and the declineEnd of lifeSome tributes to Marcus Garvey

3. I. Context

4. I. ContextGarveywasborn 08/17/1887 in St Ann’sBay (Jamaica)

5. I. ContextGarveywasborn 08/17/1887 in St Ann’sBay (Jamaica)1886 : Slavery’s abolition in Cuba

6. I. ContextGarveywasborn 08/17/1887 in St Ann’sBay (Jamaica)1886 : Slavery’s abolition in CubaJamaicawas an opressed country wheretherewere racial segregations

7. I. ContextGarveywasborn 08/17/1887 in St Ann’sBay (Jamaica)1886 : Slavery’s abolition in CubaJamaicawas an opressed country wheretherewere racial segregations1885-1886 the beginning of Africa’s colonisation by lots of european countries (mostlyEngland and France)

8. II. Garvey’schildhood and youth

9. II. Garvey’schildhood and youthHisfatherwas a mason and hismother a domesticworker

10. II. Garvey’schildhood and youthHisfatherwas a mason and hismother a domesticworkerHis parents gotelevenchild but only Marcus and hissistersurviveduntilmajority

11. II. Garvey’schildhood and youthHisfatherwas a mason and hismother a domesticworkerHis parents gotelevenchild but only Marcus and hissistersurviveduntilmajorityHisfamily come fromMaroons

12. MarronsRunaway slaves duringslavery

13. II. Garvey’schildhood and youthHisfatherwas a mason and hismother a domesticworkerHis parents gotelevenchild but only Marcus and hissistersurviveduntilmajorityHisfamily come fromMaroonsAtchurchheplayedorgan and helovedreading

14. II. Garvey’schildhood and youthHisfatherwas a mason and hismother a domesticworkerHis parents gotelevenchild but only Marcus and hissistersurviveduntilmajorityHisfamily come fromMaroonsAtchurchheplayedorgan and helovedreadingHe has got a job at a printing house and heled a strike

15. II. Garvey’schildhood and youthHisfatherwas a mason and hismother a domesticworkerHis parents gotelevenchild but only Marcus and hissistersurviveduntilmajorityHisfamily come fromMaroonAtchurchheplayedorgan and helovedreadingHe has got a job at a printing house and heled a strikeHe becamejournalist and politicianactivist

16. II. Garvey’schildhood and youthHisfatherwas a mason and hismother a domesticworkerHis parents gotelevenchild but only Marcus and hissistersurviveduntilmajorityHisfamily come fromMaroonsAtchurchheplayedorgan and helovedreadingHe has got a job at a printing house and heled a strikeHe becamejournalist and politicianactivistHe travelled a lot in Europe and South Americabefore WWI

17. III.Garvey’samericanperiod

18. III.Garvey’samericanperiodHe moved to New-York in 1916 wherehe met lots of leaders of afro-americanemancipationmovements

19. III.Garvey’samericanperiodHe moved to New-York in 1916 wherehe met lots of leaders of afro-americanemancipationmovementsIn 1917 hecreated the Unversal Negro Improvement Association, this association aimed to the improvement of the living condition for coloured people

20. UNIA’smotto

21. III.Garvey’samericanperiodHe moved to New-York in 1916 wherehe met lots of leaders of afro-americanemancipationmovementsIn 1917 hecreated the Unversal Negro Improvement Association, this association aimed to the improvement of the living condition for coloured peopleHe lived in Harlem and became one of the first black leader and becamefamous world wide

22. III.Garvey’stheory and prophecyHe supported and admired Ho Chi Minh, Gandhi, Lenine and Trotsky

23. III.Garvey’stheory and prophecyHe supported and admired Ho Chi Minh, Gandhi, Lenine and Trotsky… … but didn’tagreewithTrotsky about the unification of mankind : hebelievedthat black people wouldberespectedonly in Africa

24. III.Garvey’stheory and prophecyHe supported and admired Ho Chi Minh, Gandhi, Lenine and Trotsky… … but didn’tagreewithTrotsky about the unification of mankind : hebelievedthat black people wouldberespectedonly in AfricaHe waspan-africanist and created the theorycalled the « Back to Africa » like the Jews in Israel, Africawas the « Promised Land »

25. In the 1920s in a speech Garveysaid : « Look to Africa, when a black kingshallbecrowned for the day of deliveranceisat hand! ». 12/02/1930 HailieSelassie I iscrowned in Abyssinia (Ethiopia). Afterit the rastafarian religion appeared and considered Marcus Garvey as a prophet

26. HaileSelassie I, the Negus of Abyssinie, the King of kings, the Lord of lords, the Lion of Judah…

27. IV. The Black Star Line and the decline

28. IV. The Black Star Line and the declineGarveycreated a transatlantic line to repatriate black people fromAmerica and Caraibeannamed the « the Black Star Line »

29. IV. The Black Star Line and the declineGarveycreated a transatlantic line to repatriate black people fromAmerica and Caraibeannamed the « the Black Star Line »The Black Star Line got a lot of shareholders, and Garveycreated a real parralleleconomybetween black people

30. IV. The Black Star Line and the declineGarveycreated a transatlantic line to repatriate black people fromAmerica and Caraibeannamed the « the Black Star Line »The Black Star Line got a lot of shareholders, and Garveycreated a real parralleleconomybetween black peopleIn 1922the Black Star Line wentbankrupt and Garveywascharged of mail fraud and went to jail in 1925

31. V. End of life

32. V. End of lifeHe went back to Jamaicain 1927, whereheisconsidered as a hero

33. V. End of lifeHe went back to Jamaicain 1927, whereheisconsidered as a heroHe moved to London in 1935 and died in 1940

34. VI. Some tributes to Marcus GarveyHe is on jamaican coins

35. A Statue at National Heroes Park in Kingston and at St Ann’sBay

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