'African Diaspora World Tourism Awards respectfully dedicates its inaugural ceremony to the legendary late, great Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr.' (1887-1940)

Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr.

African Diaspora World Tourism Awards

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Dedication

African Diaspora World Tourism Awards respectfully dedicates its inaugural ceremony to the legendary late, great Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr. (August 17, 1887 - June 10,1940). The Jamaican-born Garvey was a publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, orator and a proponent of Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism. Founder of Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL), part of his organization's purpose was to:"...unify the world's people of African ancestry into one great body." To encourage self-reliance, he founded the Negro Factories Corporation, which managed a chain of businesses that included restaurants, a hotel and the noted Black Star Line Steamship Corporation. 

Garvey's Pan-African philosophy inspired a global mass movement and economic empowerment focusing on Africa known as Garveyism, which eventually inspired other movements such as the Civil Rights Movement and Rastafarian. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said that Garvey was the first man of color to lead and develop a mass movement to give millions of Negroes a sense of dignity and destiny. Allied groups inspired by Garveyism have included the Nation of Islam, the World African Diaspora Union and other African and Pan-African organizations. Today Garvey is an inspiration for a modern Black Cultural Heritage Movement. In appreciation of his work towards "uplifting his mighty race," African Diaspora World Tourism Awards salutes and pays tribute to the honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr.