The widespread favorable media response to the pardon speaks to the enduring usefulness of Garvey’s brand of identity politics to the powers that be.
Mr. Biden's pardons in recent days come after the president made the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history in December by commuting the sentences of around 1,500 people and pardoning nearly 40 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. Earlier that month, he also issued a pardon for his son, Hunter Biden.
Ex-President Joe Biden used his waning hours in office in part to issue a posthumous pardon for Black civil rights icon Marcus Garvey ... were made during Donald Trump's first term.
President Biden on Sunday pardoned Marcus Garvey, one of the first Black civil rights leaders, more than 80 years after Garvey’s death.
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The president’s pardon of Garvey, a seminal figure in the civil rights movement, is another reflection of his presidency’s ties to the Black community.
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"I'll be in town with my constituents honoring Dr. King's legacy," Rep. Ayanna Pressley said in a statement. "I don't think being there does that."
Late civil rights leader Marcus Garvey is one of five people Joe Biden has pardoned the day before Donald Trump's inauguration.
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Civil rights advocates and lawmakers have long said that Mr. Garvey’s 1923 conviction for mail fraud was unjust, arguing that he was targeted for his work.
President Joe Biden has 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