Famous People From Jamaica

Birthdate: August 17, 1887

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Saint Ann's Bay

Died: June 10, 1940

Marcus Garvey is remembered as an iconic Black separatist leader who believed that all African-origin people in Europe and America should go back to Africa. He established the Universal Negro Improvement Association, but his activism was not accepted by civil rights activists, who believed in racial integration and not segregation.

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