Marcus Garvey captured the imagination of African Americans with his "Négro Nationalism", which glorified the black culture and traditions. Garvey proposed leading his followers to Africa but it didn't success. Despite his failure, he stalled African Americans with a sense of pride in their heritage and inspired hope for the future.
Sources suggest that this pride and hope reemerged strongly during the 1950s and played a vital role in the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Born in Jamaica, Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) became a leader in the black nationalist movement by applying the economic ideas of Pan-Africanists to the immense resources available in urban centers.
Garvey’s movement was the first black attempt to join modern urban goals and mass organization. Although most subsequent leaders did not try to create black economic institutions as he had, Garvey had demonstrated to them that the urban masses were a potentially powerful force in the struggle for black freedom.
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