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Marcus Garvey

1887 - 1940

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Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL, commonly known as UNIA), through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcus Garvey has received more than 7,528,823 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Marcus Garvey is the 1,310th most popular writer (up from 1,388th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Jamaica (up from 8th in 2019) and the most popular Jamaican Writer.

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  • 7.5M

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  • 59.69

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  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Garvey
1994
Philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey
Afro-Americans, Collected works, African Americans
1923
The tragedy of white injustice
1927
Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons
1987
The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. IX
1995

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marcus Garvey ranks 1,310 out of 7,302. Before him are Michel Verne, Eleanor H. Porter, Alfonsina Storni, Ken Kesey, Widukind of Corvey, and Lina Heydrich. After him are Hunter S. Thompson, Bei Dao, Khaled al-Asaad, Matteo Bandello, Ubertino of Casale, and Sadegh Hedayat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Marcus Garvey ranks 66. Before him are Josef Harpe, Frederick Fleet, Joseph Bech, Mamoru Shigemitsu, Josef Čapek, and Sivananda Saraswati. After him are Conrad Hilton, Savielly Tartakower, Georg Heym, Hermine Reuss of Greiz, René Spitz, and Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia. Among people deceased in 1940, Marcus Garvey ranks 36. Before him are Michael Hainisch, Eugène Dubois, Édouard Vuillard, Vito Volterra, Katharina Schratt, and Nicolae Iorga. After him are Saionji Kinmochi, Gunnar Asplund, Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark, Prince Jean, Duke of Guise, Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, and Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark.

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In Jamaica

Among people born in Jamaica, Marcus Garvey ranks 6 out of 189. Before him are Bob Marley (1945), Stamford Raffles (1781), Grace Jones (1948), Usain Bolt (1986), and Peter Tosh (1944). After him are Ben Johnson (1961), Jimmy Cliff (1948), Stuart Hall (1932), Liz Mitchell (1952), Violet Brown (1900), and Merlene Ottey (1960).

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Among WRITERS In Jamaica

Among writers born in Jamaica, Marcus Garvey ranks 1. After him are Mary Seacole (1805), Leonard Howell (1898), Linton Kwesi Johnson (1952), Claude McKay (1889), Louise Bennett-Coverley (1919), Marlon James (1970), Nalo Hopkinson (1960), and Claudia Rankine (1963).

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