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He was both a visionary and a manipulator, a brilliant orator and a pompous autocrat. In just ten years following his emigration in 1917 as a laborer to the United States from Jamaica, Marcus Garvey rose to lead the Universal Negro Improvement Association (U.N.I.A.), the largest black organization in history, was taken to prison in handcuffs, and was eventually deported. The dramatic story of the rise and fall of an African American leader who influenced politics and culture around the world.
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