Marcus Garvey was born on Aug. 17 ... The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once said Garvey “was the first man of color in the ...

For over a century, civil rights leader Marcus Mosiah Garvey was demonized ... Martin Luther King Jr., who described Garvey ...

Jamaican national hero Marcus Mosiah Garvey, who continues to get much respect ... “He was the first man of color in the history of the United States to lead and develop a mass movement.

When Marcus Garvey first arrived in the United States in 1916, he quickly found his way to many of New York's most prominent black radical activists and intellectuals. And, at least briefly ...