The First Black FBI Agent

...was employed to take out the Garvey movement

The influence of Marcus Garvey

Part 2, part 3, part 4, Part 5,

This documentary chronicles one of fathers of pan-africanism, Marcus Garvey. It looks at his influence and how his movement was taken apart by the US government.

Heres a little known fact: the first black FBI agent was employed to take out the Garvey movement. The social conditions of his time created individuals like Garvey as blacks were still routinely Jim crowed in America at that time.

‘The stronger we are as a people the more respect we will command as a people’. One ideal all Pan African leaders shared was that they were firmly against Afro pessimism. They always kept moving, with a intense burning desire to change things by any progressive means necessary. Many of these men knew their history and they were eager to get back there. Knowing real African history makes it impossible to accept many conditions that have been placed on many of us. From to social context of hair, colorism, slavery and racism.

Through all of Garvey’s battles he brought together a race that had no direction and gave them hope and opportunity. Even though, he was forced to leave the United States he accomplished one of the largest black movements in America.