How Did Marcus Garvey Influence Society

Marcus Garvey, was born in Jamaica in 1887 and is considered to be the father of the Black Nationalism Movement. During the early 1900’s, after reading Booker T.

Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey shared some similar ideologies, however to a large extent Washington’s philosophies contradict Garvey’s outlook on African American society. Washington was known for accommodating the white people’s desires. For instance, “he advised African Americans to accept segregation, work hard for the friendship of whites, and achieve economic equity”. Washington probably encouraged African Americans to accept their circumstances, because he knew that fighting against norms would be a difficult task to accomplish and he wanted the race to better themselves through hard work during an era of prejudice. This belief contradicts Garvey’s ideas, because Garvey believed that pleasing the white man was the issue that prevented African Americans from being viewed as equals in the society. Although both men believed that working hard would gain Blacks an advantage in their community, Washington advocated for satisfying the white man while Garvey’s thoughts of Black Nationalism lied in the separate rights of Blacks and keeping the white man out of their way to success. Garvey’s ideology to promote economic equality of the black race was not liked by the white race, and compared to Washington’s policy of accommodation and gradual progress, was more acceptable to whites.

The often fierce ideological exchanges between Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. Du Bois are interesting, not as much because of the eloquence of their expression, as because of the fact that although outwardly contradictory, these ideologies were often unified at their foundation. This unity was not simply in terms of the broad and obvious intent to better the conditions of “black folk”, it was in terms of the very details that defined the trajectory and means of the advancement of blacks in America and all over the world.

I believe one of the most influential African Americans of all time is Marcus Garvey. Marcus Garvey achieved accomplishments in not just one, but many areas. His accomplishments ranged from a worldwide Black political organization, The Untied Negro Improvement Association, to the first, and to this day the largest Black-owned multinational businesses, the Black Star Lines. Marcus was criticized by many of his fellow African American leaders because many of his projects failed. In despite of that, Marcus Garvey talent to attract followers towards his beliefs is inspiring.

I believe that Garvey had such a powerful drive , due to having more followers than other leaders. Not to state the fact that he assembled with the Ku Klux Klan from time to time to hash out their shared interest, more so getting Africans back to Africa. An asset that not many have had the ability to do. Although he lacked the right skills to be an actual leader of an organization, However, he did hold what was most important the understanding and the drive to embrace race pride and race solidarity; the major theme of the Harlem Renaissance. I personally believe it's not what you know but it’s what you can do, practically

Garvey appealed to the masses, with his message of self-determination, despite socio-economic background. He stated himself, “… I appeal for four hundred million Negroes of the world, and fifteen millions in America in particular,” and thus, he did attract a very large audience. Dubois, on the other hand, saw the wealthy and well educated as the epicenter of black prosperity and growth, and thus proclaimed that “from [educated blacks’] knowledge and experience, [they] would lead the mass.” Because of this overt separation in viewpoints of the lower class blacks, many are lead to believe that only Dubois exuded scrutiny of blacks in America. Dubois frequently declared that poor blacks were in their situations by their own accord, and made statements such as “wealth is the result of work and saving and the rich rightly inherited the earth. The poor, on the

He saw how his father become invisible to the injustice of black around him and he decided to get involved. He had a generativity concern on improving black people rights in the world around him (Newman & Newman, 2015). As a young boy, he would watch TV, read articles, and read books regarding what people are doing to change the way blacks are treated. His father would be disappointed and hope he would just stay away for the violence, abuse, and other activist groups. After high school, he went on to Fisk University to be involve in the Freeman Riders and later the Black Panthers. Along the journey, he was kicked, spit on, arrested, and even witness brutal killings and prayed that he would not be killed for his rights.

Garvey believed people of African descent could establish a great independent nation in their ancient homeland of Africa, thus supporting the “Back to Africa” movement. Parades would often also be held as they strolled down the streets of Harlem, wearing military outfits and chanting the motto, “Black is beautiful”. But, unfortunately, UNIA weakened after federal courts condemned Garvey of fraud and ruled to imprisonment for two years. Many also attacked the organization as well as Garvey applauded whites who promoted the idea of sending African Americans back to Africa and conspired with Ku Klux Klan. W.E.B DuBois was “one of his biggest critics” as he declared Garvey as one of the most dangerous enemies of black (Boyer 736). Figures such as Owens and Phillip Randolph, additionally, criticized that he “saw the race issue as one of class more than skin color”

Puritans believed God had made a “long promised summons” to them. Creating a society in every way connected to just God was challenging enough for the Puritans but also the need to spread His words to other people. The Puritans’ priorities were centralized on their religion and the teaching of it. This shows their focus in education to them was to teach children religious and moral beliefs. No doubt that the educational life of a Puritan began at home. In keeping with covenant household, the salvation of children and their spiritual being was in the heart of every parent. Parents prayed that their children would become a source of glory. The Puritans started the Old Dilutor Act: to teach children to read and write so they can understand the

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston Massachusetts.His father was a soap and candle maker and he had a total of 15 children and two wives, Ben was the youngest son. Ben Franklin is most influential for being his contributions of science (electricity), his creations of the almanac/newspapers, and him also being one of the founding fathers of the Declaration of Independence.

Marcus Garvey was important because he aided in inspiring a mass movement amongst African Americans. Garvey make efforts to show African Americans economic empowerment meanwhile sharing the importance of taking part in politics and have greater impacts. Along with these many accomplishments, his biggest accomplishment was becoming the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League in Jamaica. Garvey came to the United States in 1916 and launched the New York Division of the UNIA the following year. This association started off with merely thirteen members and exponentially grew to approximately 3500 members. Garvey has reached new heights of power within his career in the late 1920s when he headed an international convention in Liberty Hall, containing frequent delegates in attendance from 25 countries. Garvey also led a parade of over 50,000 throughout all of Harlem.

In the earliest days of our country’s government women had no voice. On November 1st 1744, this all changed. Abigail Smith Adams was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts November 1st 1744. She was born to William Smith and Elizabeth Quincy along with one sister and three brothers. Along with being a sister and a daughter, Abigail Adams was also the first lady and a feminist. She was supportive of husband, John Adams, but was not afraid to express her opinion about the law, even if that meant contradicting him. Without Abigail Adams, John Adams would not be a successful ruler of our nation. Abigail Adams was the most influential and most important member of American history because she openly expressed her belief in woman’s rights and has set a model for all

When Garrison was only twenty-four years old, he made one of the most important speeches of his career, speaking in an "Address to the American Colonization Society." In it, he tentatively embraced the principles of colonization, yet at the same time rejected the Gradualists notion of emancipation. Being only twenty-four years old when he delivered the speech was a remarkable achievement for someone so young and was even more of an achievement for someone with little formal education. Garrison, largely self-education, read much regarding American political history and familiarized himself with the American Revolution and the founding documents.

A courageous and wise man once said, “If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing”, a famous quote from the inspiring Benjamin Franklin. This saying was definitely something Franklin lived by, since he left his mark as a well known leader in the history of the United States. Franklin first began with a career as a printer, where he eventually became wealthy and was able to retire in 1748, where he then pursued other paths towards the exploration of science and philosophy. From this point on, Franklin began publishing some of his thoughts on these topics, such as his piece, Experiments and Observations on Electricity made in Philadelphia in America. While fulfilling

Although Garvey is heralded as such as strong figure in the improvement of social issues in this period, many other activists took different approaches. For example Washington was an important figure who believed the best interests of African Americans could be realised through education in the crafts and industrial skills. To implement this he founded the Tuskegee school, which had over 100