Amy Jacques Garvey

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Amy Euphemia Jacques Garvey (born 31 December 1895^[1] — died 25 July 1973) was the second wife of Marcus Garvey, and a journalist and activist in her own right. She was born to George Samuel and Charlotte Henrietta (née South) Jacques, in Kingston, Jamaica.

Amy Jacques Garvey was a pioneering journalist and activist. She came to New York in 1917 and soon after became involved with publishing of The Negro World newspaper in Harlem from its inception in August 1918.^{[citation needed]}

She became the second wife of Negro World publisher, Pan-Africanist and UNIA-ACL President General Marcus Garvey when they married on 27 July 1922. Ironically, she had been Amy Ashwood's bridesmaid on 25 December 1919 at Marcus Garvey's first wedding, which broke down very quickly. She and Garvey had two sons, Marcus Jr. and Julius.

During her tenure from 1924 to 1927 as a Negro World associate editor, she added a page called "Our Women and What They Think". She was primarily responsible for the publication in the 1920s of both volumes of the Philosophy & Opinions of Marcus Garvey. After her husband's death in 1940, she became a contributing editor to a journal, the African, published in Harlem in the 1940s. After Marcus Garvey's death, she persevered, writing countless articles and letters.^{[citation needed]}

In November 1963, Amy Jacques Garvey visited Nigeria as a guest of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe who was being installed as that nation's first Governor-General. She published her own book, Garvey and Garveyism in 1963, as well as a booklet, Black Power in America: The Power of the Human Spirit in 1968. Her final work was the Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey volume III, written in conjunction with E.U. Essien-Udom.^[2]

Death

Amy Jacques Garvey died on 25 July 1973, in her native Kingston, Jamaica, and was interred in the churchyard of Saint Andrew's Parish Church.

Legacy

• Amy Jacques Garvey Institute

External links

• Chapter 1 of biography, The Veiled Garvey: The Life and Times of Amy Jacques Garvey
• Amy Jacques Garvey at Find-A-Grave

References

1. ^ According to the African American National Biography, Volume 3, and PBS, her year of birth was 1896.
2. ^ Amy Jacques Garvey at UNIA-ACL.org website