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Amy Ashwood Garvey (née Ashwood; 10 January 1897 – 3 May 1969) was a Jamaican Pan-Africanist activist. [1] She was a director of the Black Star Line Steamship Corporation , and along with her former husband Marcus Garvey she founded the Negro World newspaper.
The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) is a black nationalist fraternal organization founded by Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican immigrant to the United States, and his then-wife Amy Ashwood Garvey.
Founded by Garvey and Amy Ashwood Garvey, the newspaper was published weekly in Harlem, and distributed internationally to the UNIA's chapters in more than forty countries. [1] Distributed weekly, at its peak, the Negro World reached a circulation of 200,000.
Amy Euphemia Jacques Garvey (31 December 1895 [1] – 25 July 1973) was a Jamaican-born journalist and activist. She was the second wife of Marcus Garvey . She was one of the pioneering female Black journalists and publishers of the 20th century.
In September 1918, Amy Ashwood sailed from Panama to be with Garvey, arriving in New York City in October. [130] In November, she became General Secretary of UNIA. [131] At UNIA gatherings, she was responsible for reciting black-authored poetry, as was the actress Henrietta Vinton Davis, who had also joined the movement. [132]
The International African Service Bureau (IASB) was a pan-African organisation founded in London in 1937 by West Indians George Padmore, C. L. R. James, Amy Ashwood Garvey, T. Ras Makonnen and Kenyan nationalist Jomo Kenyatta and Sierra Leonean labour activist and agitator I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson.
The International African Friends of Abyssinia (IAFA) was founded by C. L. R. James with assistance from fellow West Indians Amy Ashwood Garvey and Chris Brathwaite. [1] IAFA's first public meeting was held on 23 July 1935, with another public meeting taking place days later on Sunday, 28 July, at Memorial Hall in Farringdon Street, London, and was widely reported in newspapers.
Amy Garvey may refer to: Amy Ashwood Garvey, Pan-Africanist activist and first wife of Marcus Garvey; Amy Jacques Garvey, Pan-Africanist writer and second wife of ...