Albeit a symbolic gesture, but very meaningful to many who still hold onto the desire for descendants of black people who were forcibly taken from Africa and enslaved across the globe by white Europeans, to return to the motherland of Afrocentric people.
Congressional leaders had pushed for Biden to pardon Garvey, with supporters arguing that Garvey’s conviction was politically motivated and an effort to silence the increasingly popular leader who spoke of racial pride. After Garvey was convicted, he was deported to Jamaica, where he was born. He died in 1940.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said of Garvey: “He was the first man, on a mass scale and level” to give millions of Black people “a sense of dignity and destiny.”
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