Throughout time, the struggle for African American rights has been long and hard. Throughout all the unbelievable events that African American's have endured, they have never stopped fighting. Influential leaders, activists and writers during the Harlem Renaissance such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, and Marcus Garvey were determined in the struggle to enhance the freedom and rights of African American's everywhere and to educate the nation on the culture and heritage of their race without fear. Marcus Garvey is known as a renowned black leader who understood and fought for the exile of black oppression and fought for the betterment of African American's in society during the Harlem Renaissance, yet in his one specific work, "Africa for the Africans," I do not agree with some of the views he shares. .
Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born in St. Ann's Bay parish of St. Ann, Jamaica on August 17, 1887. He spent his childhood in St. Ann's Bay, St. Ann and attended elementary school there also (Winnick). At this specific point in Garvey's life he was like many other young adolescents. Although he knew he was colored, he thought nothing of it. The innocence as a young child that he obtained was soon to be abandoned. He saw no difference in black and white, until the age of fourteen when his long time childhood friend and neighbor, a minister's daughter, moved to England and her parents told her that she was not to write him because he was a "nigger" (Reuben) . That was ultimately the turning point in Marcus Garvey's life. He then realized that black oppression was a huge problem in his own Jamaican society. .
Marcus Garvey stated: "God treated all people equal, and to deny this was to insult God Almighty." Throughout Marcus Garvey's life he traveled in search of a way to .
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end the terrible oppression that blacks were faced with every day. He was the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and African Communities League, and the ultimate goal of these organizations was to "unite all Negro peoples in the world into one great body to establish a country and government absolutely their own (Winnick).