"THE RACE FIRST": THE BLACK NATIONALISM OF MARCUS GARVEY
This article presents analysis of the views and activities of Marcus Garvey - one of the greatest figures of Black Nationalism of the first half of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. The idea of «race» was central to the Garvey’s concept of nationalism, around which his views about place and role of black people in all spheres of life were formed. His views had a great influence on the African-American public, leading to the creation of the popular in the 1920s The "Back to Africa" movement, whose main goal was to achieve the independence of the black continent with the subsequent migration of the America’s black population to Africa. Despite a number of factors that drove this movement into decline by the end of the decade, many points of Garvey's ideology remained in demand for subsequent generations of supporters of Black Nationalism.