Garvey Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Garvey

Gar·vey

 (gär′vē), Marcus (Moziah) Aurelius 1887-1940.
Jamaican black nationalist active in America in the 1920s. He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (1914) and later urged African Americans to establish an independent country in Africa.
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