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PHOTO FLASHBACK: Remembering Marcus Garvey

Published:Friday | August 20, 2021 | 7:35 AMA Digital Integration & Marketing production
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Marcus Garvey.
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Mrs. N.W. Manley unveils the bust of the late Marcus Garvey at a civic ceremony held at the George VI Memorial Park in 1956.
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Prime Minister Edward Seaga (3rd right) applauds after unveiling the bust of Jamaica's first national hero, the Rt. Hon. Marcus Garvey, at the Small Business Association of Jamaica' (SBAJ) Secretariat on Trafalgar Road in Kingston in August 1987.
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Marcus Garvey Bust at the National Heroes Circle.
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Mr. James Lawson, president of the United African Nationalist Movement (left) and Councillor Winston Davidson of the Kingston & St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC), laying wreaths on August 17, 1975 at the shrine of Marcus Garvey, in National Heroes Park to mark the 88th anniversary of the birth of the National Hero.
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Marcus Garvey’s Birthday passed three days ago and THE CLASSICS would like to take the opportunity to remember the great man, who Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has hailed as being “among the most influential leaders the world has ever known.”

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