Question

(MC)

In what way was Marcus Garvey's approach to civil rights more radical than others?


A. Garvey called for African Americans to start a revolution.

B. Garvey's followers used lynchings to intimidate their opposition.

C. Garvey believed African Americans should form a separate society.

D. Garvey believed there would be thousands of deaths before equality was achieved.

Answer 1

Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL, commonly known as UNIA), through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa. Ideologically a black nationalist and Pan-Africanist, his ideas came to be known as Garveyism.