Profile: A Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, and staunch proponent of Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism. Founder of Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
Plaque Location: 53 Talgarth Rd, London, W14
Plaque inscription: ‘Pan-Africanist Leader lived and died here’
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| Garvey looking business-like |
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| Black Star line |
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l-r George O Marke, Prince Kojo Tovalou Houenou of Dahomey & Garvey of Africa, 1924 |
He founded the Black Star Line, as part of the Back to Africa movement, which promoted the return of the African Diaspora to their ancestral lands.
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