Marcus Garvey Foundation's "Historic Harlem Bus Tour" (June 19, 2010):
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Welcome!
 The Marcus Garvey Memorial Foundation, Inc.,
founded in New York City, is a nonprofit organization whose work is
informed by the educational philosophy and ideals of Marcus Mosiah
Garvey. Garvey was the founder and leader of the Universal Negro
Improvement Association (UNIA). The largest organized mass movement
in black American history, the UNIA also had an international
presence that was unprecedented. At its peak it had members in over
fifty countries located in North America, Central America, the
Caribbean, South America, Europe, and Africa.
The founders of the Foundation were nine UNIA
stalwarts who were inspired and guided by the emphasis Marcus Garvey
placed on education in seeking to effect his program of African
redemption. Garvey viewed education as a lifelong process critical
to the progress, well-being, and confraternity of persons of African
descent throughout the world. He indeed wrote:
We will train and educate our people to those essentials that will make them a more cultured and better race.
The Foundation's mission is essentially
two-fold. One objective involves philanthropic support of education.
To this end, the Foundation in its early years aided African and
Caribbean students in the United States in meeting their tuition,
clothing, housing, food, and travel needs. It also assisted the
Marcus Garvey Memorial Institute, a secondary school in Monrovia,
Liberia. In more recent years, the Foundation has provided books for
young readers at the public library in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica, the
birthplace of Marcus Garvey. The Foundation's long-range goal is to
establish a Marcus Garvey Graduate Fellowship that will
assist dissertation-related research in Africa in the social and
natural sciences.
In addition to its philanthropic thrust, the
Foundation serves as a UNIA-focused educational resource. In this
capacity it (a) maintains a collection of UNIA documents and
memorabilia; (b) engages in UNIA-related research; (c) prepares UNIA-related
historical studies and curriculum materials; and (d) convenes public
programs on the UNIA.
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