Marcus Garvey - Memorials

Memorials

There are a number of memorials worldwide which honor Marcus Garvey. Most of them are in Jamaica, England and the United States; others are in Canada and several nations in Africa.

• A marker in front of the house of his birth at 32 Market Street, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica.
• A major street in his name in Nairobi, Kenya.
• Likeness on the Jamaican 50 cent note, 50 cent coin, 20 dollar coin and 25 cent coin.
• A building in his name housing the Jamaican Ministry of Foreign Affairs located in New Kingston.
• A Marcus Garvey statue at National Heroes Park in Kingston, Jamaica.
• A major highway in his name in Kingston.
• A street named after him in Enugu, Nigeria.
• Marcus Garvey Way in Brixton, London
• A neighborhood bearing his name in the township of Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa.
• A Marcus Garvey Library inside the Tottenham Green Leisure Centre building in North London
• A major street in his name in the historically African American Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York.
• Park in his name and a New York Public Library branch dedicated to him in New York City's Harlem.
• Blue plaque at 53 Talgarth Road, Hammersmith, London

  GARVEY, Marcus (1887-1940) Pan-Africanist Leader, lived and died here, 53 Talgarth Road, W14.

• A bust was created and is on display at a park in the central region in Ghana, along with one of Dr. Martin Luther King.
• Marcus Garvey statue in Willesden Green Library, Brent, London.
• A Marcus Garvey Cultural Center, University of Northern Colorado (Greeley, Colorado).
• Marcus Garvey Centre for Unity, Edmonton, Alberta.
• Marcus Garvey Centre for Leadership and Education in the Jane-Finch area of Toronto.
• Marcus Garvey Centre in Lenton, Nottingham, England.
• A library named after him in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.
• A Marcus Garvey Library inside the Tottenham Green Leisure Centre building in North London.
• Mentioned in the song "So Much Things To Say" off of Bob Marley's Exodus album: Time magazine's best album of the 20th century.

  "I'll never forget, no way. They sold Marcus Garvey for rights."

• The album Marcus Garvey and Garvey's Ghost (a dub version of the "Marcus Garvey" album by reggae legend Burning Spear.
• Reggae band The Gladiators recorded the song "Marcus Garvey Time", proclaiming him as a prophet with lyrics like, "Every thing he has said has come to pass".
• Deejay/Producer Mikey Dread acknowledges him as an inspiration and calls him a national hero on the 1982 track "In Memory (Jacob, Marcus & Marley)".
• Song by Reggae artist Anthony B titled "Honour to Marcus".
• Boston indie band Piebald wrote a song, "If Marcus Garvey Dies, Then Marcus Garvey Lives", for their 1999 release "If It Weren't For Venetian Blinds, It Would Be Curtains for us All"
• Ska band Hepcat recorded the song "Marcus Garvey" on their album Scientific.
• Rapper Jay-Z references Marcus Garvey as a "Martyr" in the song "Mr. Carter" by Lil Wayne
• Referenced in rapper Kendrick Lamar's 2011 song "HiiiPower"
• The National Association of Jamaican And Supportive Organizations Inc. (NAJASO) founded 4 July 1977 in Washington DC), based in the United States, named Annual Scholarship tenable at the University of the West Indies since 1988,the Marcus Garvey Scholarship.
• Marcus Garvey Scholarship tenable at the University of the West Indies sponsored by The National Association of Jamaican And Supportive Organizations, Inc (NAJASO) since 1988.
• Marcus Garvey Festival every year on the third weekend of August at Basu Natural Farms, in Pembroke Township, Illinois.
• The Universal Hip Hop Parade held annually in Brooklyn on the Saturday before his birthday to carry on his use of popular culture as a tool of empowerment and to encourage the growth of Black institutions.
• Marcus Garvey Day, held annually 17 August in Toronto.