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U.S. President Joe Biden pardoned five people on Sunday, including the late civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, and commuted the sentences of two, the White House said in a statement.
Garvey, who died in 1940, was a civil rights leader who was convicted of mail fraud in 1923 and sentenced to five years' imprisonment, a sentence that was commuted by President Calvin Coolidge in 1927.
Human rights organizations credit Garvey as the first man to organize a mass movement among African-Americans.
The White House said he created Black Star Line shipping company and founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association, which celebrated African history and culture.