The correct answer is B) Garvey was born outside the United States.
What was distinctive about Marcus Garvey's ideology, as compared to that of previous African American leaders was "Garvey was born outside the United States."
Marcus Garvey was born in Jamaica.
Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) was a Jamaican preacher. He is the founder of the African movement called Pan Americanism, which had the aim of unifying the people who were from Africa or had African heritage. In his twenties, he had the opportunity to travel to many countries in Central America. There he witnessed the poor living conditions of the people, the cheap labor jobs, the injustices, and the oppression of migrant workers. Then, he knew that he had to fight for the civil rights of people and started his political activism.