Marcus Garvey was a great social activist in the late 1800's to the early/mid 1900's. His idea's were based on a resettlement of African-American's in Africa, as well as making trade and companies associated between Africa and the America's. He wanted a totally different way of helping African-Americans, clearly causing controversy. He had followers, but he also had those who believed his ideas weren't even compatible with this world.
Those who followed Marcus Garvey felt his ideas to be their only option; living in a world where people not only didn't like you but treated you different and maybe even hurt you because of the color on your skin. This took a great affect on people, so some of them not only wanted to be out of our country, but in one where they knew this type of situation could never happen again. Marcus Garvey wanted to provide that type of world. He wanted to make a country where it was only African-Americans. He wanted to make it so that there would be some type of trading and company system so that there would be profits made in this country. Although this idea sounds nice, some people felt Marcus was not only crazy, but dangerous, and his ideas were unrealistic to the issue.
A man named W.E.B Du Bois at the time was a member of the N.A.A.C.P, so he was strongly for civil rights of African-Americans, yet he felt that Marcus wasn't benefiting the African-American community. He said that Garvey was the most dangerous man to the African-American race in America. Many people high in the activists' community "found his separatist philosophy ill-conceived" causing a large controversy as to whether his ways of running away were right or wrong. Garvey, having 4 million followers, was someone who could be argued as a hero, or dangerous man.
( http://www.biography.com/people/marcus-garvey-9307319?page=1 )
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