Why Was Marcus Garvey Important

Marcus Garvey and his importance February, also known as Black History Month, is full of recognizing important people that have made an impact of the black community. Names you hear often are Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman. While the impact they have made in history is important the things they did are taught repetitively and children fail to see the importance of the impact. Teaching children new content is a way to ensure that they say involved and interested in the classroom. An important person who has made an impact as well as being an interesting person in Marcus Garvey. Garvey’s story should be taught in schools because his movement plays a large role in black history. Many people do not know his name let alone his story.

Born on August 17, 1887 in St. Ann’s Bay, Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican activist. The youngest of 11

By 1919 Garvey had organized and launched a shipping company, Black Star Line, that allowed for trade and commerce between Africans in the United States, the Caribbean, South and Central America, Canada and Africa (Biography.com). While the Black Star Line was being created Garvey was also hard at work starting the Negroes Factories Association. This series of companies would manufacture and sell items in every industrial center in the western hemisphere and Africa (Biography.com).

Garvey’s life was not all success and new ideas, he hit a few bumps in the roads. One of them being that in 1922 Garvey was charged, along with three other official from the U.N.I.A, for mail fraud dealing with the Black Star Line (Stamper, Russell W.). During the trial it was found that many of the shipping lines books had accounting mistakes. On June 23, 1923, Garvey was convicted and sent to prison for five years (Ginnane, Mara). After serving his sentence he was deported to Jamaica in 1927