Before there was Malcolm X, before Martin Luther King Jr. Kwame Toure, Julian Bond....there was Marcus Mosiah Garvey (Born August 17,1887) The easiest way to put his significance is in a quote by Martin Luther King Jr....


“He was the first man of color in the history of the United States to lead and develop a mass movement. He was the first man on a mass scale and level to give Negroes a sense of dignity and destiny, and make the Negro feel that he was somebody.”