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Joelle Avelino Harlem s famed streets are rich with stories, many named to honor titans of Black history and civil rights Frederick Douglass Boulevard, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Malcolm X Boulevard. Among those streets sits Marcus Garvey Park, a 20-acre tribute to the Jamaican-born activist and his complicated legacy. Marcus Garvey may be less familiar to some, but his ideas are all around us. King once described Garvey as the first man on a mass scale and level to give millions of Negroes a sense of dignity and destiny. Back in the early 1920s, when Garvey was living in Harlem, the idea of Black nationalism, of unapologetic Black pride, was something whispered, not shouted. It was the Jim Crow era, after all, when white supremacy was the law and notions of white superiority were peddled by scientists in the U.S. and Europe.

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