"As President, I have used my clemency power to make that promise a reality by issuing more individual pardons and commutations than any other President in U.S. history," Biden said in a statement. "These clemency recipients have each made significant contributions to improving their communities."
"I will never forget the pain my family felt when I was sentenced or the sound of my mother's anguish in that courtroom," Scott said in a statement. "But I also won't forget the joy of redemption and renewal—the sound of her tears as I was sworn in as Speaker."
The posthumous pardon of Marcus Garvey comes after a group of 21 Democratic members of the U.S. Congress signed a letter urging Biden to grant clemency to Garvey. Garvey created the Black Star Line, the first Black-owned shipping and travel line, and founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
Martin Luther King Jr. who the country celebrates on Monday described Garvey as 'the first man of color in the history of the United States to lead and develop a mass movement.'
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