Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican civil rights activist, the founding father of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), and an owner of the Black Star Line shipping company.

President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned civil rights leader and Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey, along with four others, and commuted two sentences.

Late civil rights leader Marcus Garvey was among five people pardoned by US President ... a sentence that was commuted by US President Calvin Coolidge in 1927. The Jamaican is credited as the first man to organise a mass movement among African-Americans.

America is a country,” Pres. Joe Biden said in a statement announcing the pardon alongside four others, “built on the promise of second chances.”

Civil rights advocates and lawmakers have long said that Mr. Garvey’s 1923 conviction for mail fraud was unjust, arguing that he was targeted for his work.

Caribbean-American Democratic Congresswoman, Yvette Clarke, has welcomed the posthumous pardon of Jamaica’s first national hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, by the outgoing United States (US) President Joe Biden.

Dr. Julius Garvey pushes for his father Marcus Garvey, who died in 1940, to receive a posthumous presidential pardon.

Marcus Mosiah Garvey was the most famous black man on the planet. The Jamaican-born black nationalist led the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), a mass movement of

The president’s pardon of Garvey, a seminal figure in the civil rights movement, is another reflection of his presidency’s ties to the Black community.

President Biden pardoned political activist and Black nationalist Marcus Garvey and four others on Sunday on his last day in office.

President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned civil rights leader Marcus Garvey and four others in one of his last acts in office.

U.S. President Joe Biden pardoned five people on Sunday, including the late civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, and commuted the sentences of two, the White House said in a statement.