How Did Marcus Garvey Contribute To Immigration

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Marcus Garvey’s Immigration Story
Marcus Garvey was born in 1887 at Saint Ann Bay, Jamaica. He immigrated in the 1930s to find better life. He saw America as a new open world and wanted to fit in with the other people. Some of the laws of this time was unfair. He wanted for people to be treated equally. He established the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and the African Communities League (ACL). These are the accomplishments he made and they are what he is remembered for. He had a sister named Indiana Garvey, a father named Marcus Mosiah Garvey Sr, and a mother named Sarah Jane Richards. He immigrated with his family to America so they could find better life together.
He was a proponent of Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism,

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