Marcus Garvey And His Role In Black Nationalism

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Q. Write an essay on Marcus Garvey and his role in promoting Black Nationalism. The Black nationalists and freedom fighters before and after Marcus Garvey were saying, no more or less than what Garvey had said in word and deed: "Up! Up! You mighty race. You can accomplish what you will”.It was very evident that emancipation of slaves had not really altered the economic conditions of the black masses in the New American South. Racial segregation had become a major issue in the South and the blacks suffered discrimination in all spheres (public and private institutions) between 1890 and 1910. This was accompanied by the disenfranchisement of the black voters. It was under such circumstances, did the black leaders, the newly educated black intelligentsia brought the issues of the Afro Americans into public life. Booker T. Washington, WEB Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey were some of the most influential leaders during this period. While all three of them differed in their approach to Black upliftment, their aims were quite similar-economic empowerment, self help, raising consciousness of black pride and equal civil and political opportunities for the Negro race. Marcus Garvey was one of the most popular Black Nationalist leaders from Africa. He espoused a kind of racial nationalism in the heart of which lay his view of Africa, which he believed was meant to be redeemed by the Africans as it belonged to them. Africa symbolized Black Nationalism and pride. Garveyism is often associated with the back-to-Africa movement. His widow, Amy Jacques Garvey strongly opposes this and says that mass migration to Africa was never advocated by Garvey: his enemies had used this emigrationist label in order to discredit him. Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born on 17th august 1887 to Marcus and Sarah Garvey in the town on saint ann.’s bay, saint ann., Jamaica, West Indies. True to his
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