Marcus Garvey

Marcus Garvey was the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. The organization's goal was to unite the native people of Africa in order to fight back against crimes aimed at them. Garvey stated that the only way you're to overcome a common enemy is to work together. People in the Rastafari Movement saw Garvey as a prophet. Marcus Garvey always strived to help people and obviously he did when putting together the UNIA. Obviously Marcus Garvey recieved a lot of criticism, as do all civil rights activists. Garvey's criticism was different, though...a fellow civil rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois called Marcus Garvey a traitor. Although, they're not entirely sure why Du Bois thought this there were some ideas that came up. One in particular confused me a little bit, the theory was that Du Bois was prejudice towards Garvey because Garvey was a carribean native and was darker skinned then Du Bois. Garvey was quoted once saying, "Du Bois is purely and simply a white man's nigger." Marcus Garvey questioned Du Bois' motives on the books he wrote and thought Du Bois sent people in to try and destroy Garvey's organizations. Even with the criticism Garvey recieved he still was an amazing man and he helped many people in the different struggling nations.