Week+8



=Before the Black Panthers & COINTELPRO,= =J. Edgar Hoover was busy trying to bust MARCUS GARVEY=

But as Burning Spear says: No one remembers old Marcus Garvey.

From Wikipedia:

In a memorandum dated 11 October 1919, [|[30]] [|J. Edgar Hoover], special assistant to the [|Attorney General] and head of the General Intelligence Division (or "anti-radical division") [|[31]] of The Bureau of Investigation or BOI (after 1935, the [|Federal Bureau of Investigation] ), [|[32]] wrote a memorandum to Special Agent Ridgely regarding Garvey. In the memo, Hoover wrote that: "Unfortunately, however, he [Garvey] has not as yet violated any federal law whereby he could be proceeded against on the grounds of being an undesirable alien, from the point of view of deportation." [|[33]] [|[34]]

[Shortly thereafter Garvey was brought up on bogus mail fraud charges that centered on the supposed contents of a " single empty envelope".] ... When the trial ended on 23 June 1923, Garvey had been sentenced to five years in prison. Garvey blamed [|Jewish] jurors and a Jewish federal judge, [|Julian Mack], for his conviction. [|[38]] He felt that they had been biased because of their political objections to his meeting with the acting imperial wizard of the [|Ku Klux Klan] the year before. [|[38]] ... He initially spent three months in the [|Tombs Jail] awaiting approval of bail. While on bail, he continued to maintain his innocence, travel, speak and organize the UNIA. After numerous attempts at appeal were unsuccessful, he was taken into custody and began serving his sentence at the [|Atlanta Federal Penitentiary] on 8 February 1925. [|[39]] Two days later, he penned his well known "First Message to the Negroes of the World From Atlanta Prison", wherein he made his famous proclamation: "Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for, with God's grace, I shall come and bring with me countless millions of black slaves who have died in America and the West Indies and the millions in Africa to aid you in the fight for Liberty, Freedom and Life." [|[40]]

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During a trip to Jamaica, [|Martin Luther King] and his wife [|Coretta Scott King] visited Garvey's shrine on 20 June 1965 and laid a wreath. In a speech he told the audience that Garvey "was the first man of color to lead and develop a mass movement. He was the first man on a mass scale and level to give millions of Negroes a sense of dignity and destiny. And make the Negro feel he was somebody."