Marcus Garvey Exoneration
Exonerate the Honorable Marcus Garvey Now!
Exon
erate
Marc
us
Garve
y
NOW
Contact:
UNIA-ACL Government
2nd Assistant
President General
Yaw Davis
Los Angeles, California

Email Address:
yawethiopia@gmail.com

Web:
www.cbpm.org/marcusgarvey
 exoneration
www.pataus.org
www.marcusgarveyexone
ration.com
Targeting: The President of the
United States and The U.S. Senate
Started by: Marlene Jackson
To all justice lovers everywhere,
What's in a name? Well, most of us
don't give it a lot thought. However,
Marcus Garvey was a conscientious
man who taught excellence of
character and led by example. He
was accused of mail fraud and later
went to federal prison for a crime he
didn't commit. President Calvin
Coolidge granted Marcus  Mosiah
Garvey  a pardon on November 18,
1927, however he  was deported to
Jamaica
Marcus Garvey's
Exoneration
Why? The campaign
is a project
undertaken by The
Institute of
Caribbean Studies
(I.C.S.),
http://www.icsdc.org/
,
for three reasons:  
Enter Here:

http://www.jamaicans.c
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From the Office of the President-General
Universal Negro Improvement Association-
African Communities League Official Statement
on the Exoneration of Honorable Marcus
Garvey, Founder and President General of the
UNIA-ACL, 1914-1940.
The official position of the UNIA-ACL Parent Body on this issue is
that the Honorable Marcus Garvey deserves to be
completely exonerated and not merely pardoned. A pardon* —
especially a partial pardon — is a tacit acknowledgement
that Mr. Garvey was guilty of a crime to begin with. He wasn’t, and
that fact needs to be stated by the American government. His 1923
conviction for mail fraud was based on police misconduct,
harassment, and racial animus against a popular Black leader.
That is and has been the UNIA-ACL’s official position since 1987, the year of
the 100th Centennial of the Birth of the Right Excellent Marcus Mosiah Garvey.
In 1986, Congressman Charles Rangel of New York had introduced
legislation for a joint House-Senate Resolution to pardon the Honorable
Marcus Garvey. The UNIA-ACL requested an adjustment to that legislation, so
that it would call for exoneration (also known as a full and complete pardon),
and not a government restatement re-commuting his sentence. The UNIA-
ACL has been in full support of that legislation since then, and the bill has
been re-introduced in every session of Congress through the 111th of 2009-
2010.
In 1986-87, hearings were held before the House Committee on Oversight
and Government Reform, then chaired by Congressman John Conyers. The
Honorable Charles L. James, then President-General of the UNIA-ACL;
Marcus Garvey, Jr.; Dr. Julius Garvey, M.D.; Dr Tony Martin, the noted historian;
Queen Mother Moore; Congressman Rangel; Dr. John Henrik Clarke; Dr Yosef
ben-Jochannan; Dr. Robert Hill; Judith Stein, and many others testified before
the committee.
The UNIA-ACL Presidents General from Reginald Maddox (1989-1992),
Marcus Garvey, Jr. (1992-2004), Redman Battle (2004-2008), Nwalimu Gee
(2008-2008), and Senghor Jawara Baye (2008 to present), have unceasingly
supported efforts for Mr. Garvey's name to be exonerated and restored. Former
President General Redman Battle even established an official Exoneration
Committee, led by 2nd Assistant President-General Yaw Kwayke Davis, to
work with Dr. Julius Garvey and Congressman Charles Rangel on this legal
issue. That committee remains functional today, and it is still pursuing its
exoneration objective.
Recently, we have witnessed an upsurge of citizen interest in this issue.
Several persons have written letters, signed petitions, and sent e-mails to
government offices requesting a pardon for Mr. Marcus Garvey. **While the
UNIA-ACL is sympathetic to those efforts, they do not represent the UNIA-ACL’
s official position and those persons are acting on their own. The UNIA-ACL
Government demands an exoneration for Mr. Garvey, and the only acceptable
pardon would be a complete and total pardon which expunges
Mr. Garvey’s conviction, eliminates any penalties, restores any money or
property lost, and is accompanied by a governmental
apology for violating Mr. Garvey’s rights and impugning his good name. The
Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey deserves nothing less. His words and
deeds are revered all over the world and shall be forever.

One God, One Aim, One Destiny,
Senghor Jawara Baye
President-General/Administrator

*In American jurisprudence, a pardon is for a criminal act, not a civil liability. A
partial pardon allows a sentence reduction and early release (as in
commutation), or a return of all of a person’s civil rights lost with a conviction,
but the criminal conviction and status as a convicted felon do not change. A
Full and Complete pardon, issued by governors and the President, “places
the legal and civil status of the convicted back to where it was before the crime
was committed — it’s as if the crime never took place (and the person was
never arrested, charged and convicted), as far as the law is concerned. “ One’
s non-criminal status is restored — in other words, a person is exonerated.
Full and complete pardons are, however, rare.

**Additionally, the argument used in the alleged letter from the Obama Justice
Department refusing the individual requests for a pardon, i.e., the U.S.
Government does not grant pardons to deceased Americans, is not really true.
Henry O. Flipper, the Black West Point cadet who was drummed out of the
Army through legal frame-ups and persistent racial persecution, was
pardoned by Bill Clinton in 1999 – 59 years after Mr. Flipper died – and 117
years after he had been falsely convicted. The federal precedent for Mr. Garvey,
in a similar racial case, has thus already been set.
GOVERNMENT OFFICERS

Senghor Jawara Baye
President-General/Administrator

Akili Nkrumah
1st Assistant President-General

Yaw Kwayke Davis
2nd Assistant President-General

Randolph Pierre
3rd Assistant President-General

Basiymah Muhammad Bey
4th Assistant President-General

Mary Bota
Secretary-General

Brenda Dunn Clayton
1st Assistant Secretary-General

Janet Taylor
2nd Assistant Secretary-General

Samia Akoma
High Chancellor

Asim Nkrumah
Auditor General

I-Nia Reginia Rogers
Counsel General

Khabyr Hadas
Minister of Education

Zama Cook
Minister of Information

Chuck Banks
Minister of Labour & Industries

Serwah Nkrumah
Minister of Transportation

Dr. David L. Horne
International Organizer

Lewin S. Bailey
High Commissioner of Canada

Nyata Toure
District Two Commissioner

Kwame Binta
District Three Commissioner

Mensah Saleem
Michigan State Commissioner

Sadie Madison
Administrator – Council of Elders

Marcus Garvey, Jr.
Special Representative

Sababu Nkrumah
Special Representative
No pardon for
Garvey US
Government says no
time, resources to
waste
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