Dread History:
The African Diaspora,
Ethiopianism, and Rastafari
Marcus Garvey participating in a Universal Negro
Improvement Association (UNIA) parade in New
York.
Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey founded the largest mass black movement in history, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). This movement started in Jamaica and spread Garvey's message to the rest of the Caribbean, and Central and North America. See Dread History:The African Diaspora, Ethiopianism, and Rastafari for complete details.
photograph by Jake Homiak, Smithsonian Institution
