Marcus Mosiah Garvey

Summary

Marcus Mosiah Garvey was posthumously pardoned by President Joe Biden on January 19, 2025, for the offense of using the mails in a scheme to defraud. Garvey had been convicted under federal mail fraud statutes in connection with his operation of the Black Star Line shipping company during the 1920s. The pardon remitted the conviction without restoring civil rights, as is customary in posthumous clemency grants.