Trial, Deportation & Triumph — How Marcus Garvey’s Spirit Outlived His U.S. Struggles Resistance & Legacy • Marcus Garvey in New York Series (1916–1924) How Marcus Garvey’s Spirit Outlived His U.S. Struggles They tried to silence him with a courtroom, a cell, and a ship — but his words sailed further than any vessel they could sink. By Reggae Dread • Published November 11 2025 Garvey in court, 1923: even behind bars, his belief in African redemption never faltered. By the early 1920s, Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) had become the largest Black organization in the world. Millions followed his speeches, his newspaper The ...

The Parades of Pride: UNIA Conventions and the Spectacle of Black Empowerment in 1920s Harlem Events & Celebrations • Marcus Garvey in New York Series (1916–1924) UNIA Conventions and the Spectacle of Black Empowerment in 1920s Harlem When Garvey’s UNIA took to the streets, Harlem didn’t just watch a parade — it watched a nation in rehearsal. By Reggae Dread • Published November 11, 2025 UNIA parade in 1920s Harlem: uniforms pressed, drums pounding, and the red-black-green flag turning ordinary streets into a global stage. Close your eyes and picture Harlem in the early 1920s. Streetcars rattle by, vendors call out, jazz leaks from open windows ...

UNIA and the Harlem Renaissance: How Garvey Sparked a Global Black Awakening Cultural Movements • Marcus Garvey in New York Series (1916–1924) How Garvey Sparked a Global Black Awakening When Garvey’s parades marched by day and Harlem’s poets sang by night, a new Black world imagination was born. By Reggae Dread • Published November 11, 2025 In 1920s Harlem, UNIA pageantry and Harlem Renaissance creativity shared the same streets, the same people, and the same hunger for freedom. In the years after World War I, Harlem became something the world had never seen before: a capital of Black imagination. Street orators, jazz bands, painters, and ...

Love, Leadership & Legacy — Amy Ashwood and Amy Jacques: The Women Behind Garvey’s Movement Profiles & Legacy • Marcus Garvey in New York Series (1916–1924) The Women Behind Garvey’s Movement Before the parades, newspapers, and flags, there were two Amys — thinkers and builders who helped turn Garvey’s dream into a living reality. By Reggae Dread • Published November 11, 2025 The two Amys: co-founder and editor, organizer and philosopher — women who gave Garveyism its backbone. Say “Garvey,” and most people picture the man in the plumed hat riding in a decorated car, saluting the crowd as UNIA bands play the march. But ...

Garvey and the Great Migration: Hope, Identity, and the Search for a Homeland Migration & Identity • Marcus Garvey in New York Series (1916–1924) Hope, Identity, and the Search for a Homeland When millions moved north and across oceans, Garvey gave them a flag, a story, and a sense of home they could carry in their hearts. By Reggae Dread • Published November 11, 2025 As trains rolled north and ships crossed the Atlantic, Garvey’s Harlem became the crossroads where migrants turned movement into a mission. Between 1916 and 1930, more than a million Black Americans left the cotton fields and small towns of the U.S. ...

Marcus Garvey in New York (1916–1924): A 10-Part Journey in One Epic Story Series Companion • Marcus Garvey in New York (1916–1924) A 10-Part Journey in One Epic Story Ships, parades, newspapers, FBI files, Harlem jazz, migrating crowds, and two brilliant women — all woven into one story of how Garvey turned New York into the capital of a global Black awakening. By Reggae Dread • Companion article to the 10-part Reggae Dread Garvey series Between 1916 and 1924, New York City became the stage for one of the boldest experiments in Black history: Marcus Garvey’s attempt to transform scattered Black communities into a conscious, ...

Building the Black Star Line: Garvey’s Dream of Economic Liberation on the High Seas Economics & Enterprise • Marcus Garvey in New York Series (1916–1924) Garvey’s Dream of Economic Liberation on the High Seas A bold idea sailed out of Harlem: connect the Black world with Black-owned ships — and teach a people to think like owners, not subjects. By Reggae Dread • Published November 11, 2025 The Black Star Line aimed to turn pride into power by moving goods, people, and ideas under a Black-owned flag. The Black Star Line was never just a company. It was a classroom, a pulpit, a dare. In ...

From Kingston to Harlem: Marcus Garvey’s Rise as the Voice of Black Nationalism (1916–1924) Reggae Dread Production History & Culture • Marcus Garvey in New York Series (1916–1924) Marcus Garvey’s Rise as the Voice of Black Nationalism How a young Jamaican organizer stepped off a ship in 1916 and helped ignite a global fire of Black pride, self-reliance, and Pan-African unity. By Reggae Dread • Published November 11, 2025 Marcus Garvey addressing supporters in Harlem, where his vision of Black nationalism took center stage in the late 1910s and early 1920s. When Marcus Garvey arrived in the United States in 1916, he stepped into a world already ...

Garvey vs. the System: How the FBI and Hoover Tried to Silence a Black Visionary Political History • Marcus Garvey in New York Series (1916–1924) How the FBI and Hoover Tried to Silence a Black Visionary Inside the showdown between Marcus Garvey and J. Edgar Hoover — the battle that turned Black nationalism into a federal “problem.” By Reggae Dread • Published November 11, 2025 Declassified files show how Marcus Garvey became one of the first major Black leaders systematically targeted by U.S. federal surveillance. By the early 1920s, Marcus Garvey had become impossible to ignore. His Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) claimed millions of supporters, ...

The Negro World: How Garvey’s Newspaper United a Diaspora Media & Journalism • Marcus Garvey in New York Series (1916–1924) How Garvey’s Newspaper United a Diaspora Before there was Black Twitter, there was a Black newspaper in Harlem carrying the voices of a scattered people across the world. By Reggae Dread • Published November 11, 2025 Copies of the Negro World moved in suitcases, cargo holds, and coat pockets — turning Harlem into the newsroom of the African Diaspora. Long before livestreams, podcasts, or viral posts, Marcus Garvey understood a simple truth: if you control the story, you control the future. In 1918, as his Universal ...