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Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. Garvey was ideologically a black nationalist and Pan-Africanist. His ideas came to be known as Garveyism. Garvey was born into a moderately prosperous Afro-Jamaican family in Saint Ann's Bay and was apprenticed into the print trade as a teenager. Working in Kingston , he became involved in trade unionism.

He later lived briefly in Costa Rica, Panama, and England.

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Emphasising unity between Africans and the African diaspora , he campaigned for an end to European colonial rule in Africa and advocated the political unification of the continent. He envisioned a unified Africa as a one-party state , governed by himself, that would enact laws to ensure black racial purity. Although he never visited the continent, he was committed to the Back-to-Africa movement , arguing that part of the diaspora should migrate there.

Garveyist ideas became increasingly popular, and the UNIA grew in membership. His black separatist views—and his relationship with white racists like the Ku Klux Klan KKK in the interest of advancing their shared goal of racial separatism —caused a division between Garvey and other prominent African-American civil rights activists such as W.

Du Bois , who promoted racial integration. Believing that black people needed to be financially independent from white-dominated societies, Garvey launched various businesses in the U. In , he became President of the Black Star Line shipping and passenger company, designed to forge a link between North America and Africa and facilitate African-American migration to Liberia , In Garvey was convicted of mail fraud for selling the company's stock, and was imprisoned in the United States Penitentiary, Atlanta for nearly two years.

Garvey blamed Jews and Catholics , claiming that they were prejudiced against him because of his links to the KKK. His sentence was commuted by U. Settling in Kingston with his wife Amy Jacques , Garvey established the People's Political Party in , briefly serving as a city councillor.