In one of his final acts as the leader of the country, President Joe Biden issued a posthumous pardon to Black nationalist Marcus Garvey on Sunday (Jan. 19). The early civil rights figure led a movement against racial inferiority in the U.

Garvey, one of the earliest internationally-known Black civil rights leaders, was convicted of mail fraud in 1923.

President Biden announced Monday before leaving office that he would be preemptively pardoning several people who could be targeted with President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House, including members of his family,