'Black Moses' Lives On: How Marcus Garvey's Vision Still Resonates Back in the early 1920s, when Garvey was living in Harlem, the idea of Black nationalism, of unapologetic Black pride, was something whispered, not shouted. And for the thousands who bet on Garvey with everything they had, the world did not change, even if the dream remained alive in Garvey's mind.