article_snippet.sent: Jamaica's leader also asked President Barack Obama to exonerate black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey, who was convicted in the U.S. of mail fraud in the 1920s.
article_snippet.sent: Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller says Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller told President Barack Obama that it is the 'deep desire of the government and people of Jamaica' to have Garvey exonerated of the U.S. criminal conviction that got Garvey deported to Jamaica in 1927.
article_snippet.sent: Garvey was the first person named a Jamaican national hero following the island's independence in 1962.