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Marcus Garvey

 

Jamaica’s first officially recognized National Hero was born to parents with Maroon ancestry, on August 17, 1887 in St. Ann’s Bay. Located between Discovery Bay to the west (where Columbus first landed on Jamaica) and the present day cruise ship capital of Ochio Rios to the east. St. Ann’s Bay is the main town in the parish of

St. Ann on Jamaica’s north coast.

Marcus Garvey was a wise, controversial African American leader of the early 20th century. He was born in Jamaica, learned the printer's trade as a teenager, and his ability to express himself in print helped him become an advocate
for black rights in his homeland.

 

He formed the Universal Negro Improvement Association, but a financial scandal forced him to
flee to New York. Before long he organized the UNIA in America, and his organization began an amazing chapter in American
race relations.

 

Garvey, after choosing the unlikely role model of evangelist Billy Sunday, became a great orator and enlisted many thousands of African Americans in his movement. He brought them hope in the times of oppression and poverty by incorporating the The Black Star Line which was a shipping line.

St. Ann, the birthplace of Pan-Africanist activist

 

Marcus Mosiah Garvey

32 Market Street

St. Ann’s Bay

Jamaica

 

How it changed over the years!!

 

 

 

His statue in front of the

M. Garvey High school

in St. Ann

And his words live on….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Statue of Marcus M. Garvey in Ochio Rios.

In 1964 Garvey’s body was dug up in London then moved back home to Jamaica. He now rests in Kingston’s National Hero Park, but his spirit lives on in the will of his people, and not just Jamaicans but also all African people and others around the world. 

  “When I am dead, wrap the mantle of the Red, Black, and Green around me, for in the new life I shall rise with God’s grace and blessings to lead the millions up the heights of triumph with the colours you well know.” Said Garvey on his

death-bed. “Look for me in the whirlwind.” 

The town of Discovery Bay in St. Ann was originally named Dry Harbour. The name was changed for "tourist appeal" as it is reputed by some to be the area in which Christopher Columbus first landed in Jamaica.