Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940), was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a proponent of the Pan-Africanism movement, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). He also founded the Black Star Line, a shipping and passenger line which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands.
Prior to the 20th century, leaders such as Prince Hall, Martin Delany, Edward Wilmot Blyden, and Henry Highland Garnet advocated the involvement of the African diaspora in African affairs. Garvey was unique in advancing a Pan-African philosophy to inspire a global mass movement and economic empowerment focusing on Africa known as Garveyism. Promoted by the UNIA as a movement of African Redemption, Garveyism would eventually inspire others, ranging from the Nation of Islam to the Rastafari movement (some sects of which proclaim Garvey as a prophet).
Garveyism intended persons of African ancestry in the diaspora to “redeem” the nations of Africa and for the European colonial powers to leave the continent. His essential ideas about Africa were stated in an editorial in the Negro World entitled “African Fundamentalism”, where he wrote: “Our union must know no clime, boundary, or nationality… to let us hold together under all climes and in every country…”
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This documentary definitely had a hidden agenda to paint Garvey as less than he really was. Though it did tell facts about what he did if you listen closely to the way the talk about him they consistently talk about how his movement “had no real purpose” or “it wasn’t backed by anything”. And when they mention the leader of the KKK they called him the “Grand Wizard” like wtf? Also they try to paint a picture as if he was unstable mentally talking about how he was suicidal and supremely egotistic and authoritative and how he “never laughed”. I understand that he might of had his ways but what does that matter in comparison to the great things hes done? Were all human and we all have flaws and i just feel like they focused a little too much on his negatives. In documentaries about other American heroes such as Abraham Lincoln or George Washington, etc you never hear them talking about their racist lives, you only hear about the good things which really werent even “good” things.
The message from Barnes at the end is so reassuring
" I dreamed a dream, that he came and I saw him, and he said to me Barnes, do not be worried, for everything is working according to plan, I am not dead I am only sleeping"
Oh America you better be glad I didn't learn about this Man in school 😌
The odd thing is, in the south, where Hoover grew up, he's alleged to have been Black. Also, the NAACP has NEVER been a "Black" organization.
RBG ….🍎💣🍵
I was searching for the song, and ended up finding this and I’m glad that I found this
Marcus Garvey wasn't born on Jamaica, he was born on the island of st.kitts to ms. Sarah jane Richards
Who had about 11 children, with only Marcus and 1 or 2 siblings, were born on sir gillies estate in St. Ann's sandy point st.kitts, leave st.kitts around 1900 at the age 2 with his mother and father to live in Jamaica
J. Edgar Hoover tried his best to hide his blackness by doing the most hideous things to blacks 🤷🏾♀️.
The family that the documentary commenced with is jacob mills from the island of st.kitts
All the major revolutionaries need to be idolized and their collective successes respected! Dutty Boukman,Toussaint L'ouverture, Jean Jacques Dessaline, Marcus Garvey and the list goes on. ✊🏽
I heard about him… Great documentary!
Long live Marcus Garvey!! He was one of the greatest African leaders that ever lived.
Claudius Barnes R.I.P.
Haters are stupid and RACIST.
Its true I didn't learn of his selflessness his greatness his pride in school i heard it from reggae music 🎶 listening like who is Marcus Garvey then I looked him up research him and passed him on
I am already a proud Jamaican but after watching this. hmmm Africa need to bow down to that little Island. Garvey put them on the map!!!
There is nothing worse than a sellout , , , Those brothers who sold out on the black star Alliance are Pathetic.
Integration was nothing but a trick. Any sensible intelligent person can see that!
RIP KING ALL GREAT BLACK LEADERS GOT HATED ON BY THEIR OWN PEOPLE SO BADLY SMH FAMOUS MALCOM PICTURE LOOKING OUT YJE BLINDS EVERYONE LOVES HE WASNT LOOKING FOR THE WHITE MAN HE WAS LOOKING FOR HIS OWN PEOPLE!!! MORW KNOWLEDGE ON MY CHANNEL
The downfall of the black man, will always be another black man!
@58:00 "made black people the laughing stock of the world"……
oh so shinning white peoples shoes and eating only after white people, and moving out of the way of white children didn't?
Garvey the greatest.✊🏿
Great documentary. Thoroughly enjoyed it
Alot of people in the comments talking bout they never heard of this man and wants to blame the black church or school systems. But I have heard of him and I'm 36 years old and was born in the '80s. I was once told by a teacher…"never wait on somebody to teach you something". So I spread that to all of you seek knowledge on your own. Don't wait on somebody to plant a seed because it might not never happen. And also his wife was a force for African American rights too. Powerful and wonderful woman…check her out too.
Very powerful 🙏🙏
He will never be forgotten❤️🖤💚
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He had some contradicting ideas, but he was brilliant for calling out the NAACP for what it is…. a Jewish operation. He also denounced communism and had the sense that there was truth to be found Catholicism.
Black is beautiful ✊🏽
This is nothing but a bunch of slander….they really painting this man as a crazy person who only wanted things his way. Wtf. We can't keep letting THEM tell our stories. Ugh.
Very good documentary! I appreciate the complexities presented that covered Garvey's personification as well as the times he lived in. I feel such sympathy for this man who must have been so lonely and a victim of his own ego. Yet no matter how perfect a soul he could have been – the load of the system he was fighting against would have broken a saint's back, Who in his position could say he could have achieved as much or done better? On a sad note, it reinforces my belief that this current human civilization needs to be eradicated. There is no hope for reform as this tree of humanity is rotten to the roots. Sad but true because this will continue to go on until the species self-destruction fed by sexism, racism, religious bigotry, economic injustice and ecological abuse.
…so….why is it racist when i say all africans should go back to africa?
Marcus Garvey the genious. I am always motivated by his tieaching, i am a forever follwer of Marcus Messiah Garvey. God bless Africa forever
1:14:00 sounds melancholy.