Pan-Africanism
Marcus Garvey
1887 – 1940
Founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association in 1914. Built the largest mass movement in early-20th-century Black America, with chapters in dozens of countries. His Pan-Africanist project influenced Kwame Nkrumah, Malcolm X, and the broader 20th-century Black freedom imagination.
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