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PHOTO FLASHBACK: MARCUS GARVEY ENSHRINEMENT, NOVEMBER 15, 1964

Published:Thursday | November 18, 2021 | 8:46 PMA Digital Integration & Marketing production
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Paul bearers of the UNIA with the casket of Marcus Garvey leaving the Holy Trinity Cathedral after a solemn Requiem High Mass was celebrated. The procession then moved to the George VI Memorial Park, where the body was re-buried with a further church and state ceremony.
The casket is borne on a police vehicle along North Street on its way to the park.
Uniformed officers of the U. N. I. A. attending the mass in the cathedral on Sunday, November 15, 1964. From left are Mr Z. Munroe Scarlett, Mr Nathaniel Brown and Mr St William Grant. To their right are other members of the organisation.
Among those on the platform in the park were from left: Lady Campbell, Governor General Sir Clifford Campbell; Frank Hill; R. A. Njoku, leader of the Nigerian CPA delegation; Prime Minister Sir Alexander Bustamante; Mrs Frank Hill; Lady Bustamante; the Rev. Canon R. O. C. King, representing the Anglican Bishop of Jamaica; Edward Seaga and Deputy Supt. W. N. Smart. They stood here for the National Anthem to end the proceedings.
Their Excellencies Sir Clifford Campbell and Lady Campbell and their daughter Clair seated on the platform in the park between Mrs Amy Jacques Garvey (left) and Mr Frank Hill (right).
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Jamaica’s first national hero, Marcus Garvey, was enshrined at the King George VI Memorial Park on November 15, 1964. His body was brought home from England, from the Kendal Green Cemetery in London, England, where he was interred on his death in June 1940. Relive some of the moments in pictures from the Archives.

 

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