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The Great Marcus Garvey
by
Liz Mackie
(2001 –
Reprint)
price:
UK pounds £6.95
US dollars
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Paperback
160 pages
210 x 148mm
7 black & white photographic images
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Marcus Garvey was one of the greatest Black leaders of the twentieth
century. His story is that of a man who launched an idea on the tide and
created a flood in the worldwide development of Black political
consciousness. He was a man of extraordinary intellectual and organisational
abilities who brought millions of peoples from the African Diaspora together
in an attempt at self-liberation.
As the leader of America’s first mass political movement of Black people,
Garvey’s achievements were both enormous in their scale and long-lasting in
their effects. His ideas spread to Europe, Africa and the Caribbean – to
every place where Black people lived under the imperialist system of white
rule; and they too responded in their thousands to his call for a “universal
confraternity of the race”.
In spite of harassment and eventual imprisonment, Garvey was able to instil
a sense of pride, discipline and resolve in his followers. Although he did
not live to see the independence of Africa and the Caribbean, the efforts
made during his lifetime were a major contribution to such independence.
There are few figures of the twentieth century who can be said to have
envisaged so much, completed so little, and inspired so many as Marcus
Garvey. Today, he is rightly honoured as a Jamaican National Hero, but his
significance is felt worldwide.
“Every time you see another nation on the African continent become
independent, you know that Marcus Garvey is alive.” – Malcolm X |
