Marcus Garvey
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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.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, writer, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tole
Marcus Garvey
…Klux Klan (KKK) who shared his racial separatist views. This created a divide between Garvey and prominent African-American civil rights activists like W. E. B. Du Bois, who promoted racial integration. Believing that black people should be financially independent from white-dominated societies, Garvey launched various…
Du Bois in 1907
The title page of Du Bois's Harvard dissertation, Suppression of the African Slave Trade in the United States of America: 1638–1871
Du Bois in 1904
Founders of the Niagara Movement in 1905. Du Bois is in the middle row, with white hat.