On his last full day in office on Sunday, President Biden issued five pardons, including one for political activist and black nationalist Marcus Garvey.

President Biden pardoned political activist and Black nationalist Marcus Garvey and four others on Sunday on his last day in office.

This historic pardon culminates a decades-long fight by Marcus Garvey’s descendants and supporters to right the wrongs of a what many regarded as a politically motivated conviction.

Dr. Julius Garvey pushes for his father Marcus Garvey, who died in 1940, to receive a posthumous presidential pardon.

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Joe Biden made history in criminal justice reform, granting five pardons, including a posthumous one for civil rights icon Marcus Garvey.

Human rights organizations credit Garvey, who was convicted of mail fraud in 1923, as the first man to organize a mass movement among African-Americans

Congressional leaders had pushed for Biden to pardon Garvey, with supporters arguing that Garvey’s conviction was politically motivated and an effort to silence the increasingly popular leader who spoke of racial pride.

President Biden posthumously pardoned Marcus Garvey, along with advocates for various causes. He commuted sentences for individuals, including gun violence prevention activist Darryl Chambers.

AFTER appeals to several leaders of the United States, including the man dubbed America’s first black president, Bill Clinton, and the official first black president, Barack Obama, it took an 82-year-old white man from Delaware, the 46th president of the US, to finally act on calls to pardon Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jamaica’s first national hero.

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