Co-founder of the UNIA-ACL, the first wife of Marcus Garvey worked tirelessly for women’s rights and inter-continental unity from the Caribbean and Central America to the United States, Europe and Africa.
The world cannot realize stability unless the drive for global domination by imperialism is overthrown. This truism was at the heart of Malcolm X’s struggles. The awareness and activism of people inside and outside the U.S. must be harnessed into a movement committed to fundamental transformation of the exploitative and oppressive system.
Tagged under Global Pan-Africanism Malcolm X, El Hajj Malik Shabazz, Declaration of Independence, Henry Ford Colleg, Marcus Garvey, Kwame Nkrumah, Universal Negro Improvement Association, African Communities League, Ku Klux Klan, Nation of Islam, Elijah Muhammad, Martin Luther King Jr., African American History Month
Marcus Garvey should be posthumously pardoned for his wrongful conviction for use of the mails in furtherance of a scheme to defraud. During a time when Blacks were seen as second class citizens, Garvey led a mass movement to elevate the Black community through economic empowerment and independence. He was convicted after being targeted by J. Edgar Hoover and deprived of a fair trial. Go to: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov//petition/grant-marcus-mosiah-garvey-p…
Tagged under Advocacy & Solidarity Marcus Garvey, Pan-Africanism