MARCUS GARVEY- Jamaica Civil rights activist ( 17 August 1887- 10 June 1940 ) Born in Jamaica, Marcus Garvey was an orator for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. Garvey advanced a Pan-African philosophy which inspired a global mass movement, known as Garveyism. Garveyism

Paul Bogle- Jamaica Paul Bogle led the last large scale armed rebellion for voting rights and an end to legal discrimination and economic oppression against African Jamaicans.  Paul Bogle was born free to Cecelia Bogle, a free woman, and an unknown father in the St. Thomas parish (1822- 24 October 1865).  Bogle’s mother soon died and he was raised by

“Kwame Ture” - Trinidad and Tobago Famed civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael was born on June 29, 1941, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Carmichael's parents immigrated to New York when he was a toddler, leaving him in the care of his grandmother until the age of 11, when he followed his parents to the United States.

Some Caribbean Islands celebrate Emancipation day on the 1st August. In the month of July in celebration of their emancipation from their colonial rulers, every week The Steve Biko Foundation will cover prominent activists that emerged from some of the Islands. Walter Anthony Rodney- Guyana Walter Anthony Rodney (23 March 1942 – 13 June 1980) was a prominent Guyanese historian, political activist