US President Joe Biden has pardoned five people including the late civil rights activist Marcus Garvey, the White House said Sunday, just hours before he cedes the Oval Office to Donald Trump.
Garvey, one of the earliest internationally-known Black civil rights leaders, was convicted of mail fraud in 1923.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the ...
By Erica L. Green President Biden pardoned five activists and public servants on Sunday, including a posthumous grant of clemency to the civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, who mobilized the Black ...
President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other black civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s.