After delivering over 11,000 signatures to Representative
Frederica S. Wilson’s office, the Coalition for the Exoneration of Marcus
Garvey is now petitioning President Barack Obama (https://www.causes.com/campaigns/71936-urge-president-obama-to-exonerate-marcus-garvey). As
part of their renewed strategy, Professor Geoffrey Philp will be delivering a
series of lectures during Black History Month, “Marcus Garvey: Human Rights
Champion.”
“President Obama is
an inheritor of the rich human rights legacy that was initiated by Marcus
Garvey and the UNIA on August 13, 1920, with the ‘Declaration of the Rights of the
Negro Peoples of the World,’” said Professor Philp. “The declaration highlighted
basic human rights, which were finally included in the United Nation’s
Universal Declaration of Human Rights until December 10, 1948. Garvey and the
UNIA were ahead of the world body by twenty-eight years!”
The kickoff for the
lecture series will be on Tuesday,
February 18, 2014, at the Carrie P. Meek Entrepreneurial Center,
Miami, Florida, at 12:40 p.m. in Room 1114. The lecture will culminate in a
call to action for the exoneration of the Right Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey:
Join us for a
lecture on the Marcus Garvey’s visionary movement which championed the human
rights of peoples of African descent in North America and the African diaspora
worldwide.
About the
Coalition for the Exoneration of Marcus Garvey
The Coalition
for the Exoneration of Marcus Garvey is a group of activists with members
from the Caribbean, North America, and the United Kingdom. Their goal is the
public restoration and rehabilitation of the good name and character of the
Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey.
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