Today, August 17th, 2018 is the birthday of Marcus Mosiah Garvey. He is Jamaica’s first National hero. The co-founder of the UNIA/ACL Universal Negro Improvement Association/African Communities League founded in 1914. Today, he would be 131 years old.
At the height of the UNIA, the organization was said to have 40,000,000 members globally and over a thousand chapters worldwide.
Born in St. Ann’s, Jamaica, Marcus at an early age was forced to read by his father. His father was well read himself. He was so obsessed with reading that he subscribed to more publications that he could pay for.
In Jamaica, in those day, prior to independence, Garvey’s well read father often payed the role as attorney and represented individuals in the the court of law.
Marcus’s godfather had a printing company and by the age of 12, Marcus, himself became a master printer.
He was influenced by many people. One being Edward Wilmot Blyden, a Pan Africanist who was also born in the West Indies, who became a mentor to a young Marcus Garvey. Another, was Booker T. Washington.
After reading the book “Up From Slavery” by Booker T. Washington, which tells his story of creating a college- Tuskegee Normal School in Tuskegee, Alabama, right after slavery was abolished in the the United States. Marcus said, “my doom, I asked, where is the Black Men’s government? His men of high affairs? His Army? His Navy? I could not find them, so I said, I would create them.”
He wrote Booker T. Washington to request to visit him at Tuskegee with a vision of creating a Tuskegee model in Jamaica. unfortunately, Booker T. Washington passed just prior to Marcus’s arrival.
After founding the U.N.I.A im 1914, Garvey took his printing skills to the test and started “The Negro World” publication. The Negro World became the voice of his movement. The slogan, “One God. One Aim. One Destiny’, was said often to reinterate the importance of Black people around the world united. “Up you mighty race. You can accomplish what you will.”
At a time, the educational institutions declared Blacks inferior and laws of these lands placed Blacks in second and third class situations, Marcus Garvey’s Negro World, shared information of our great empires,inventors and how we influenced the world through science, mathematics, etc.
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In addition to “The Negro World”, The Black Star Line was a shipping company created with a vision of conducting global trade between Africa and world.
The Black Nurses was similar to the red cross. But to help Black’s around the world to overcome emergencies. The
To learn more about Marcus Garvey and his philosophy, read ” The Philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey, “Garvey and Garveyism”. John Henrick Clark, Richard Hill, Tony Martin have also written extensively on the man we called The Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey.
Happy Birthday Marcus.
One Aim. One God. One destiny!
David N. Roach
MadeinJamaica.org
