Editing Marcus Garvey (section)

===Views on Colourism/Complexionism within the Black Community===
Garvey believed that darker-skinned Black people were often marginalized, and he sought to challenge systems that favoured lighter-skinned individuals in leadership and social status.<ref>https://www.aaihs.org/colorism-as-racism-garvey-du-bois-and-the-other-color-line/</ref> His philosophy was rooted in racial pride and self-reliance, encouraging Black people to celebrate their African features and reject Eurocentric beauty standards.<ref>https://jis.gov.jm/information/get-the-facts/black-is-beautiful-garveys-message-of-racial-pride/</ref>

His views sometimes led to tensions with figures like W.E.B. Du Bois, who was of mixed heritage and whom Garvey accused of catering to elite, lighter-skinned Black Americans.<ref>https://www.aaihs.org/colorism-as-racism-garvey-du-bois-and-the-other-color-line/</ref> However, Garvey’s primary mission was to unite people of African descent globally, rather than to divide them based on skin tone.