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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Chapters: People from Saint Ann Parish, Burning Spear, Marcus Garvey, Bob Marley, Sean Kingston, Ferncourt High School, Chezidek, Xavier Marshall, Newton Marshall, Ernie Smith, Jackie Mittoo, Justin Hinds, Brown's Town, Larry Marshall, Cedella Booker, Green Grotto Caves, Rupie Edwards, Willi Williams, Devon Hodges, Deon Hemmings, Novlene Williams-Mills, Peter Cargill, Joseph Cotton, The Enchanted Gardens, Jamaica, Ocean View Beach, Otis Grant, Ocho Rios, Thatchfield Great Cave, Alexandria, Jamaica, Discovery Bay, Jamaica, Moneague College, Grace Jackson, Howard Grant, Dickie Fuller, Nickel Ashmeade, Red Rat, Hutchinson's Hole, Floyd Lloyd, Bamboo, Jamaica, Nine Mile, Jamaica, Runaway Bay, Jamaica, Hopewell, Saint Ann. Excerpt: Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH (17 August 1887 - 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). Prior to the twentieth century, leaders such as Prince Hall, Martin Delany, Edward Wilmot Blyden, and Henry Highland Garnet advocated the involvement of the African diaspora in African affairs. Garvey was unique in advancing a Pan-African philosophy to inspire a global mass movement and economic empowerment focusing on Africa known as Garveyism. Promoted by the UNIA as a movement of African Redemption, Garveyism would eventually inspire others, ranging from the Nation of Islam to the Rastafari movement (which proclaims Garvey as a prophet). The intent of the movement was for those of African ancestry to "redeem" Africa and for the European colonial powers to leave it. His essential ideas about Africa were stated in an editorial in the Negro World titled "African Fundamentalism" where he wrote: Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr. was born in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica to Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Sr., a mason, and Sarah Jane Richards, a domestic worker. Of eleven siblings, only Marcus and his sister Indiana survived until maturity. Garvey's father was known to have a large library, and it was from his father that Marcus gained his love for reading. Sometime in 1900, Garvey entered into an apprenticeship with his uncle, Alfred Burrowes, who also had an extensive library, of which young Marcus made good use. Garvey attended elementary schools in St Ann's Bay and the Church of England high school in Jamaica until he was about fourteen, he left St Ann's Bay for Kingston, where he found employment as a compositor in the printing house of P. A. Benjamin, Limited. He was a master printer and foreman at Benjamin when, in November 1907, he was elected vice-president of the Kingst