When Marcus Garvey was in his twenties, he toured Central America and witnessed the oppression of migrant workers, an experience that inspired his support of Pan Africanism and his political activism.
Marcus Garvey was a Jamaican-born black nationalist and leader of the Pan-Africanism movement, which aimed to unify and connect people of African descent worldwide. In the United States, he was a well known and noted civil rights activist who founded the Negro World newspape.
