Marcus Garvey Mosiah is a renown Jamaican political activist who irrespective being the activist, he was a publisher-entrepreneur and a firm supporter of the Blacks Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements. Marcus while schooling faced the challenge of economic hardships forcing him to leave school at fourteen where he started the technical job of printing and entrepreneurship. The interest of politics began manipulating in his blood, and he saw the need to indulge fully in it to save the less privileged in the society. His action is associated with how the Marcus Garvey ended the movements, these were Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNI) and the (ACL) African Communities Leagues. Apart from these, he formed the Black Star line connected to transport network, which looked into the Africans in diaspora coming back to their motherlands countries due to the era of slavery in the European. Marcus Garvey founded his movement called universal Negro improvement association, a party which was having large followers been Africans. The organization was established in the United States of America with a great back up from the African Americans. It is through this movement that he made several speeches which impacted the way of interaction between him and a black American and the claiming natives to be who were, in this case, the whites (Hill & Bair, 9).
Additionally, through his party Marcus Garvey managed to expand the party offices to a total of 700 branches in 38 states The main reason as he did this was to continue spearheading the need for equality between all human races from the USA to other parts of the world such as the Canada, Africa, and even the Caribbean. In this regard, he managed to appeal and advocate for human race equality through his organization of the UNIA. Through a philosophical process blended in religion, his team managed to bring a strong bond between him and the whites, an aspect which in real nature was political and economical. He claimed that there is a need for ''Declaration of the Negro Peoples of the World'' in conjunction with the way he spells out the fact that Christians speak up of the Almighty God saving the human beings through his words then there is a need for the Negroes to be saved from the jaws of slavery. In relation to their organization motto that reminds them to believe in one God to have the same aim as well as one destiny. This depicts the way Marcus was fighting to bring the good relationship between the Blacks and the Whites in the USA (Garvey, 45).
He later met with autobiographies of the most influential characters, including Booker T. Washington while on his stay in London, and he came to believe that he was not alone in the process of bringing equality between the different races. He reached a consensus with what he read an aspect which challenged him to what Washington said. In what Booker T said he brings out the need for the African Americans, first of all, to come and identify the need for equality among themselves and then the same will extend to the whites . This sparked him to change his decisions of going back to Jamaica and instead opted to travel to America to meet Washington. The process of disillusionment when it came to an end after world war one stopped, gave him more hopes in his speeches of continuing the process of the improving humanity and control the society from breaking into two main divisions based on racism. This was in correspondence with the hope in all parts of the America that the same rights have to be enjoyed by all of which the same rights here were left only for the Whites (Hill & Bair, 35).
After a wide survey of racism situation, Marcus Garvey was further challenged that the national integration would take place and that the aspects of economic, political and even the cultural aspect can eventually gather for equality and more so respect in the Africans Americans State. With the idea in his mind, he established the UNIA headquarters to be in the New York in 1917, where he started spreading the ideas of the Black Nationalism. It is through these aspirations that he decided to come to Africa to bring the same message of patriotism. While in Africa his speeches were mainly rooted in three areas which were the unity, African cultural heritage pride and the autonomy completion. He firmly believed that the African descent is supposed to be a stronghold for the great African independence. This was because Africa by then was under the colonial rule, where still humanity and equality was still a problem (Hill & Bair, 119).
In conclusion, Marcus Garvey so much touted in the capitalism being a tool that the African Americans can use to be entirely independent, his message so much relies on the economic equality for all. He had a strong belief that the financial success was the best way one can be independent. In this, he was trying to prove the point of the need to be united and avoid all sorts of disparity and discrimination that society deserves to change the means of life. Though it is interesting that most of the various and prime areas were under the white Americans an issue which Marcus in his speeches was strongly against since he was aiming at equal sharing of the land resources to all irrespective of the color.
Works Cited
Garvey, Marcus. Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey. Ed. Bob Blaisdell. Dover Publications, 2005.
Hill, Robert A, and Barbara Bair. Garvey, Marcus. Life and Lesson: Centennial Companion to the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association. University of Califonia Press, 1987. 27-25.
Verney, Kevern. The Art of the possible:Booker T Washington and Black Leadership in the United States ,1981-1925 . New York and London : Routledge, 2001 .
