The road to Garvey’s presidential pardon is a story of tireless activism by human rights leaders, Garvey’s descendants and ...
Marcus Garvey ignited one of the most phenomenal social movements in modern history and was admired around the world. Yet few ...
America is a country,” Pres. Joe Biden said in a statement announcing the pardon alongside four others, “built on the promise ...
President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned civil rights leader and Pan-African activist Marcus Garvey, who was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s. Garvey served four years in prison until President ...
This historic pardon culminates a decades-long fight by Marcus Garvey’s descendants and supporters to right the wrongs of a ...
Civil rights advocates and lawmakers have long said that Mr. Garvey’s 1923 conviction for mail fraud was unjust, arguing that ...
Garvey, one of the earliest internationally-known Black civil rights leaders, was convicted of mail fraud in 1923.