Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. was a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, through which
Garvey in c. 1920
A statue of Garvey now stands in Saint Ann's Bay, the town where he was born
In London, Garvey spent time in the Reading Room of the British Museum
In 1918, Garvey's UNIA began publishing the Negro World newspaper.
Rastafari is an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s. It is classified as both a new religious movement and a social movement by scholars of religion. There is no central auth
Marcus Garvey
…colonialism. In Jamaica, he was the first person formally recognised as a national hero. His ideas exerted a considerable influence on such movements as Rastafari, the Nation of Islam and the Black Power Movement. Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born on 17 August 1887 in Saint Ann's Bay, a town in the British colony of…
Two Rastafarians in Zeerust, South Africa; they are wearing and selling items that display their commitment to the religion
The Liberty Bell Temple, a Rasta place of worship in Los Angeles
Rastafari graffiti, depicting Haile Selassie, on a building in Uruguay
Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia between 1930 and 1974. He is of central importance to Rastas, many of whom regard him as the Second Coming of Jesus and thus God incarnate in human form.