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What impact did Marcus Garvey have on the African American community and what actions did he and his organization take to expand economic opportunity for African Americans?

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In 1920, more than 20,000 people attended Garvey's first UNIA convention in New York. The convention produced a Declaration of Negro Rights, which denounced lynchings, segregated public transportation, job discrimination, and inferior black public schools.


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