It was the Great Depression and the family had been living in London after Marcus Garvey - the prominent 20th century Black Nationalist - was convicted of one count of mail fraud, which forced him to leave the U.

President Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other Black civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s.

President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned civil rights leader and Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey, along with four others, and commuted two sentences.

Congressional leaders had pushed for Biden to pardon Garvey, with supporters arguing that Garvey’s conviction was politically motivated and an effort to silence the increasingly popular leader who spoke of racial pride.

The former president’s unexpectedly powerful farewell address rightly condemned the very oligarchy he empowered.