“Marcus Garvey Prize for Human Rights”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

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Marcus Garvey Prize for Human Rights

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{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2017}}The Marcus Garvey Prize for Human Rights is an award in the name of civil rights activist and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL), Marcus Garvey, which has been given to distinguished individuals and human right leaders. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Junior, for example, was posthumously awarded the honor on December 10, 1968. ^[1]

Garvey was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a proponent of the Pan-Africanism movement, to which end he founded the UNIA-ACL.^[2] He also founded the Black Star Line, a shipping and passenger line which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands.

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1. ^{{cite web|title=Presentation of the Marcus Garvey Prize for Human Rights|url=http://www.thekingcenter.org/archive/document/presentation-marcus-garvey-prize-human-rights|accessdate=April 25, 2017}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.unia-acl.org/archive/themyth.htm|title=The "Back to Africa" Myth|accessdate=April 1, 2007|author=|date=July 14, 2005|work=UNIA-ACL website|publisher=|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061230195707/http://www.unia-acl.org/archive/themyth.htm|archivedate=December 30, 2006}}

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