Marcus Garvey

CTL-E-0339 · Person · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Jamaican-born, Harlem-based UNIA leader who brought his movement to Chicago in September 1919, electrifying the South Side Black Belt.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-012; source research type(s): Person/person. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Marcus Garvey biography ujamaalive.africa ujamaalive.africa
Chicago, Garveyism, and the history of the diasporic Midwest Erik S. McDuffie University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (African American Studies/History)
Encyclopedia of Chicago (encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/502.html); 'Garveyism and the Midwest' (crossculturalsolidarity.com PDF)
https://crossculturalsolidarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Garveyism-the-Midwest.pdf

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