Marc Fennell
speaker
1,887 appearances
18 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5d ago
Marc Fennell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's been kind of
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The US government assumed that Garvey's business program was fraudulent and described him as a get rich quick artist.
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Now, there's nothing about this story straightforward here, because it's not just white America accusing Garvey of being a con man.
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There's plenty of African Americans deeply critical of him too.
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Some thought he was reckless.
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Others thought he was exploiting the very people he claimed to represent.
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And inside his own movement, there were informants, not just the black undercover agent, there were insiders feeding information back to the Bureau of Investments.
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Yeah.
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There was a
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And all those people that put money into the Black Star Line, what like what happens to that money?
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What happens to them?
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Not only had Marcus Garvey hemorrhaged the money raised from his supporters, he was also mixed up with some very dodgy stock sales.
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Garvey had advertised stock for a ship before the purchase paperwork had been cleared.
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And that is actually what the Bureau used to arrest and charge him with mail fraud in 1923.
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Gavi served nearly three years of a five-year jail sentence before the government commuted his sentence and deported him back to Jamaica.
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He never returned to America, and his movement, the Improvement Association, it soon
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Wasted away.
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When I wander around London or Kingston and Jamaica, one of the things I'm always struck by is the sheer amount of street art and murals of Marcus Garvey in those cities.
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And I'm kind of curious as to why it is a guy who had a a failed shipping line has become so influential.
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Like how big an influence did he become after this?
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