President Calvin Coolidge commuted Garvey’s sentence in 1927, and he was deported to Jamaica. Garvey continued his advocacy until his death in London in 1940. His remains were returned to Jamaica in ...

In 1923, in a trial that supporters viewed as politically motivated, Garvey was convicted on a single charge of federal mail fraud involving a $25 contribution to the steamship line. In 1925, he was ...

In 1925, he was sentenced to the maximum term of five years; in 1927, President Calvin Coolidge commuted the sentence and deported him to Jamaica. As a convicted felon, he was prevented from ...

In 1925, Garvey was sentenced to the maximum term of five years. In 1927, President Calvin Coolidge commuted the sentence and deported Garvey to Jamaica.

The road to Garvey’s presidential pardon is a story of tireless activism by human rights leaders, Garvey’s descendants and members of Congress, some of whom died before they could see their ...

In 1927, Calvin Coolidge commuted Garvey’s five-year sentence after he spent two years in prison, on the condition he be deported to his native Jamaica. Successive governments of Jamaica had called ...

After his 1923 conviction his sentence was commuted by President Calvin Coolidge. Garvey was later deported to Jamaica in 1927. He died in London in 1940 at age 52.

After 102 years, Marcus Garvey was Pardoned for his 1923 conviction but social media users call for more.

This posthumous pardon comes 101 years after Garvey was convicted of mail fraud in 1923 in a case marred by prosecutorial and governmental misconduct. He was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment – a ...

Garvey had spent about two years in prison before his sentence was commuted by then-President Calvin Coolidge. Activists say the 11th hour pardon of Garvey came as no surprise, given the sustained ...

But it is a testament to Garvey’s persuasiveness that whilst he was in jail, thousands of his supporters, including those he’d allegedly duped into buying tickets in the Black Star Line, petitioned ...