Marcus Garvey

Marcus Garvey

1. Marcus Garvey Parade in NYC

   • Universal Negro Association

2. Changed the way people perceived the changing of negros in the United States

3. Garvey's father trapped him in a grave to "teach him a lesson"

   • Lesson; You can trust no one but yourself

4. St. Anne's bay, Jamaica

   • Grandfather
     • Reserved- spent lots of time by himself
   • Mom
     • Believed he would do great things
       • Encouragement lead to Marcus' success
   • Young Marcus
     • Read a lot
     • Wanted to leave St. Anne's Bay
     • Forced to leave school at 14
       • Became printers apprentice
         • Published his own newspaper
     • Had ambition
     • Read Booker T. Washington and became inspired to unify black people across the globe
     • Met Amy Ashwood
       • Created Universal Negro Improvement Association

5. When Universal Negro Improvement Association failed in Jamaica

   • Came to NYC
     • Became a printer
     • First formal lecture
       • Lost confidence
       • Fell off stage
       • After failure went to church where Billy Sunday preached
         • Imitated his style of speech
           • Renewed confidence
             • Tour of 38 states
   • Left Ashwood behind

6. FBI created to go after Garvey

   • J. Edgar Hoover; first case
   • Because he organized black people all across the world