Achievements Of Marcus Garvey

In today’s society, racism is still a prevalent issue. Organizations and movements such as Black Lives Matter, Black pride, and even the Black Panther Party, are products of contributions made by a strong individual in particular. The courageous and determined Marcus Garvey, united and led a crusade to against the oppression of African Americans. Through his contributions to the uplifting of those of African descent, Garvey changed the perception of social inequalities that classified people into races.

Marcus “Moisah” Garvey, was born on August 17, 1887, in St. Ann’s Bay Jamaica. Early on in his childhood, Marcus Garvey experienced losing a close friendship with his neighbor due to the color of his skin. From this experience, he was

The two principles, strength and internalization, are both black perspective principles used during Marcus Garvey’s attempt to fortify the lives of African Americans. As mentioned in the School of Social Work philosophy here at Howard University, the Black Perspective principle strength “insists on delineating ways in which that strength can be used to respond to the continuing oppression of affirmation” (University, 1942). Garvey believed “that African Americans were universally oppressed and any program of emancipation would have to be built around the question of race” (Carter, 2002). He thought that African Americans should believe that on a collective and individual level, the African American race is greater than what we are often

Attention is directed to the borders outside of the United States, such as the Caribbean and Africa. This attributes to Garvey’s widely known motto bring ‘Africans back to Africa’ or Pan Africanism. Garvey was able to incorporate his morals, culture and views on the oppression of African Americans through his speeches and contributions to social welfare among his devoted followers in and outside the United States. The UNIA started in Africa and swiftly migrated to America taking a global approach of African American’s lack of self-efficacy in a white man’s society. As it states in the philosophy statement, in the Howard University School of Social Work handbook, “social workers are committed to the involvement in other parts of the world as an element of their professional identity” (University, 1942). Garvey also believed in the same principle as it relates to the social injustice and social welfare of people of