Marcus Mosiah Garvey was galvanized by an apparently imperious mission: to lobby British MPs and government ministers into reforming the social and economic conditions of British colonial citizens of African descent living in the West Indies. Jamaica’s most forthright political leader, he visited England several times before settling in London in 1935.  He met with the Black seamen in the East End who distributed his papers to other seamen at various ports across the UK. An excellent orator, he would often amass small crowds at Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, preaching about the philosophies and practices of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) – a movement that eventually coerced the British Parliament into commissioning a report on the quality of life for all workers. Although banned in many countries, the radical literature he published for the down but not defeated Black masses was reflected in The Negro World (1918) and The Black Man (1933) both printed on presses owned by the UNIA.