In his final act as president, Joe Biden honours Garvey’s legacy and overturned his controversial 1923 mail fraud conviction

President Biden on Sunday pardoned Marcus Garvey, one of the first Black civil rights leaders, more than 80 years after Garvey’s death.

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.

Congressional leaders had pushed for Biden to pardon Garvey, with supporters arguing that Garvey's conviction was politically motivated.

President Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey ... He died in 1940. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said of Garvey: “He was the first man, on a mass scale and ...

President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned Marcus Garvey, the influential Black nationalist who inspired leaders like Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Garvey was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s and deported to his birthplace of Jamaica following his imprisonment.

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America is a country,” Pres. Joe Biden said in a statement announcing the pardon alongside four others, “built on the promise of second chances.”

As his presidency winds to a close, President Biden issued a posthumous pardon for Marcus Garvey, a notable Black nationalist who inspired figures like Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, and later generations of Black Panther Party activists.

After 102 years, Joe Biden pardoned Marcus Garvey for his unjust conviction in 1923. Supporters wonder what's next.

Michelle West waited 32 years. Convicted in 1994 of nonviolent drug offenses, she was ordered to federal prison for two life sentences, plus an additional 50 years. On Sunday, former President Joe Biden commuted her sentence,