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‘Unfinished business’: lawmakers push Biden to exonerate civil rights leader Marcus Garvey

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A group of Democratic lawmakers is urging President Biden to exonerate the late civil rights leader Marcus Garvey .

Garvey organized what is considered by many historians to be the largest organized mass movement in Black history.

In 1922 , he was convicted of mail fraud in connection to the Black Star Line .

President Calvin Coolidge later commuted the remainder of his sentence, only for Garvey to be deported back to his native Jamaica .

There's a lot of unfinished business in America as it relates to the African American equity and and justice, says Congresswoman Barbara Lee .

Lee introduced Truth Racial Healing and Transformation Commission, HR 40 .

Lee : "If you don't know your history, you can't move forward. And America certainly could come to this point".

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