Marcus Garvey

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Marcus Garvey, the Jamaican-born founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, presides over the organization's 1922 convention at Liberty Hall in New York City.

Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

Marcus Garvey

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