T he family of embattled civil rights icon Marcus Garvey is encouraging the Biden administration in its final days to pardon the man Martin Luther King, Jr. posthumously described as "the first on ...

President Biden on Sunday pardoned Marcus Garvey, ... scale and level” to give millions of Black people “a sense of dignity and destiny,” the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once said of Garvey.

On Sunday, President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned Marcus Garvey, the influential Black nationalist who inspired leaders like Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Garvey was convicted of ...

"Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. described Mr. Garvey as 'the first man of color in the history of the United States to lead and develop a mass movement,'" Biden said in a statement.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said of Garvey: “He was the first man, on a mass scale and level” to give millions of Black people “a sense of dignity and destiny.” ...

Marcus Garvey was born on Aug. 17, 1887, in St. Ann’s ... The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once said Garvey “was the first man ...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said of Garvey, “He was the first man, on a mass scale and level, to give millions of Black people a sense of dignity and destiny.” ...

Following his conviction, Garvey was deported to his home country of Jamaica. He died in 1940. Late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. spoke highly of Garvey's impact on the movement.

Martin Luther King Jr. described Garvey as “the first man of color in the history of the United States to lead and develop a mass movement,” according to the White House statement.

Marcus Garvey rides in a parade in this undated photograph. Garvey, hailed by Martin Luther King, Jr. as the original Black civil rights hero of his time, has been viewed historically as a figure ...