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.

In the course of making Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind, filmmaker Stanley Nelson interviewed several people who were members of the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Garvey's ...

Marcus Garvey came to the United States penniless in 1916. In just eleven years, he built the first large black nationalist movement the country had seen. Famed as a public speaker, idealized as a ...