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Hon. Marcus Garvey, Jr. |
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Hon. Marcus Garvey, Jr. |
Marcus Garvey Jr. , elder of the two sons of Marcus and Amy Jacques Garvey , was born in St. Andrew, Jamaica. He received his early education at Calabar High School in Kingston, Jamaica. His subsequent academic and professional training were at the University of London, London, England; the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica; and City College of the University of New York. He holds the Bachelor of Arts (English, Economics) and the Bachelor of Laws degrees of the University of London, the BS (Mathematics, Physics) and MS (Physics) degrees of the University of the West Indies, and the MA (Physics, 1976) and MS (Electrical Engineering, 1978) degrees of City College of the City University of New York.
Marcus Garvey, Jr. taught Mathematics and Physics at High Schools in Jamaica, at the University of the West Indies in Kingston, and at City and Hunter Colleges of the City University of New York, New York. Since 1978 he has worked as an Electrical Engineer in digital and analog circuit design, the analysis and design of optical fiber transmission systems and the analysis of navigational guidance systems. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the States of Massachusetts and New Jersey, and is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Optical Society of America, and the American Institute of Physics.
Marcus Garvey, Jr. is an African Nationalist who articulates the philosophy and teachings of his father, Honorable Marcus Garvey Sr. , founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) . He is a student of history of African peoples in the Homeland of Africa and the Diaspora. He contributed a chapter to the comprehensive review of the life and work of his father, Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa, edited by John Henrik Clarke, published by Random House (1974) . He also contributed to Essays in Honor of Kwame Nkrumah, a collection of papers commemorating the Silver Jubilee year of the Organization of African Unity, edited by Kwesi Krafona and published by Afroworld Publishing Company (1988).
Marcus Garvey, Jr. was a member of the UNIA-ACL in Jamaica and is a member of the UNIA-ACL in the United States where he has lived since 1973. He is President of the A. L. Crawford Division of the UNIA-ACL in Brooklyn New York. He was elected President General and Administrator of the UNIA-ACL at the 39th International Convention held in Washington D.C. in August 1992. He was re-elected in to his second term in 1996 in Philadelphia PA. He is currently the seventh President General of the UNIA-ACL, succeeding to the office once held by his father, the Right Excellent Marcus Mosiah Garvey-National Hero of Jamaica, from the founding of the Organization in 1914 until his departure in 1940.
Marcus Garvey, Jr. lectures extensively on Garveyism and the UNIA-ACL and articulates the message of African Nationalism as propounded by Edward Blyden, Bishop Henry Turner and his father. The Honorable Marcus Garvey Jr. is leading the UNIA-ACL into the next Millennium for Africans Those At Home And Those Abroad.
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