Garvey, Marcus Mosiah

17/08/1887

10/06/1940

A political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL, commonly known as UNIA), through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa. Ideologically a black nationalist and Pan-Africanist, his ideas came to be known as Garveyism and were very popular in Hackney in the late 1980s and early 1990s.