1. MARCUS GARVEY The Black Moses

2. Context Garvey’schildhood and youth Garvey’stheory and prophecy The Black Star Line and the decline End of life Some tributes to Marcus Garvey

3. I. Context

4. I. Context Garveywasborn 08/17/1887 in St Ann’sBay (Jamaica)

5. I. Context Garveywasborn 08/17/1887 in St Ann’sBay (Jamaica) 1886 : Slavery’s abolition in Cuba

6. I. Context Garveywasborn 08/17/1887 in St Ann’sBay (Jamaica) 1886 : Slavery’s abolition in Cuba Jamaicawas an opressed country wheretherewere racial segregations

7. I. Context Garveywasborn 08/17/1887 in St Ann’sBay (Jamaica) 1886 : Slavery’s abolition in Cuba Jamaicawas an opressed country wheretherewere racial segregations 1885-1886 the beginning of Africa’s colonisation by lots of european countries (mostlyEngland and France)

8. II. Garvey’schildhood and youth

9. II. Garvey’schildhood and youth Hisfatherwas a mason and hismother a domesticworker

10. II. Garvey’schildhood and youth Hisfatherwas a mason and hismother a domesticworker His parents gotelevenchild but only Marcus and hissistersurviveduntilmajority

11. II. Garvey’schildhood and youth Hisfatherwas a mason and hismother a domesticworker His parents gotelevenchild but only Marcus and hissistersurviveduntilmajority Hisfamily come fromMaroons

12. Marrons Runaway slaves duringslavery

13. II. Garvey’schildhood and youth Hisfatherwas a mason and hismother a domesticworker His parents gotelevenchild but only Marcus and hissistersurviveduntilmajority Hisfamily come fromMaroons Atchurchheplayedorgan and helovedreading

14. II. Garvey’schildhood and youth Hisfatherwas a mason and hismother a domesticworker His parents gotelevenchild but only Marcus and hissistersurviveduntilmajority Hisfamily come fromMaroons Atchurchheplayedorgan and helovedreading He has got a job at a printing house and heled a strike

15. II. Garvey’schildhood and youth Hisfatherwas a mason and hismother a domesticworker His parents gotelevenchild but only Marcus and hissistersurviveduntilmajority Hisfamily come fromMaroon Atchurchheplayedorgan and helovedreading He has got a job at a printing house and heled a strike He becamejournalist and politicianactivist

16. II. Garvey’schildhood and youth Hisfatherwas a mason and hismother a domesticworker His parents gotelevenchild but only Marcus and hissistersurviveduntilmajority Hisfamily come fromMaroons Atchurchheplayedorgan and helovedreading He has got a job at a printing house and heled a strike He becamejournalist and politicianactivist He travelled a lot in Europe and South Americabefore WWI

17. III.Garvey’samericanperiod

18. III.Garvey’samericanperiod He moved to New-York in 1916 wherehe met lots of leaders of afro-americanemancipationmovements

19. III.Garvey’samericanperiod He moved to New-York in 1916 wherehe met lots of leaders of afro-americanemancipationmovements In 1917 hecreated the Unversal Negro Improvement Association, this association aimed to the improvement of the living condition for coloured people

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21. III.Garvey’samericanperiod He moved to New-York in 1916 wherehe met lots of leaders of afro-americanemancipationmovements In 1917 hecreated the Unversal Negro Improvement Association, this association aimed to the improvement of the living condition for coloured people He lived in Harlem and became one of the first black leader and becamefamous world wide

22. III.Garvey’stheory and prophecy He supported and admired Ho Chi Minh, Gandhi, Lenine and Trotsky

23. III.Garvey’stheory and prophecy He supported and admired Ho Chi Minh, Gandhi, Lenine and Trotsky… … but didn’tagreewithTrotsky about the unification of mankind : hebelievedthat black people wouldberespectedonly in Africa

24. III.Garvey’stheory and prophecy He supported and admired Ho Chi Minh, Gandhi, Lenine and Trotsky… … but didn’tagreewithTrotsky about the unification of mankind : hebelievedthat black people wouldberespectedonly in Africa He waspan-africanist and created the theorycalled the « Back to Africa » like the Jews in Israel, Africawas the « Promised Land »

25. In the 1920s in a speech Garveysaid : « Look to Africa, when a black kingshallbecrowned for the day of deliveranceisat hand! ». 12/02/1930 HailieSelassie I iscrowned in Abyssinia (Ethiopia). Afterit the rastafarian religion appeared and considered Marcus Garvey as a prophet

26. HaileSelassie I, the Negus of Abyssinie, the King of kings, the Lord of lords, the Lion of Judah…

27. IV. The Black Star Line and the decline

28. IV. The Black Star Line and the decline Garveycreated a transatlantic line to repatriate black people fromAmerica and Caraibeannamed the « the Black Star Line »

29. IV. The Black Star Line and the decline Garveycreated a transatlantic line to repatriate black people fromAmerica and Caraibeannamed the « the Black Star Line » The Black Star Line got a lot of shareholders, and Garveycreated a real parralleleconomybetween black people

30. IV. The Black Star Line and the decline Garveycreated a transatlantic line to repatriate black people fromAmerica and Caraibeannamed the « the Black Star Line » The Black Star Line got a lot of shareholders, and Garveycreated a real parralleleconomybetween black people In 1922the Black Star Line wentbankrupt and Garveywascharged of mail fraud and went to jail in 1925

31. V. End of life

32. V. End of life He went back to Jamaicain 1927, whereheisconsidered as a hero

33. V. End of life He went back to Jamaicain 1927, whereheisconsidered as a hero He moved to London in 1935 and died in 1940

34. VI. Some tributes to Marcus Garvey He is on jamaican coins

35. A Statue at National Heroes Park in Kingston and at St Ann’sBay

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