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 pardoned five activists and public servants Sunday, including a posthumous grant of clemency to Civil Rights leader Marcus Garvey, who mobilized the Black nationalist movement and was convicted of mail fraud in 1923.

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