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Amy Ashwood Garvey: Pan-Africanist, Feminist and  Mrs. Marcus Garvey No. 1 Or A Tale of Two Amies

By Tony Martin

 

 

Contents :

Preface                                                                                                         

  1.                  The Beginning

  2.                  Napoleon"  Meets his Josephine                                                                                                                                       

  3.               "Panama"  Love and New York Marriage

  4.                  Eternal Triangles, Or, “Amy  , I Will Marry You  if the Baby is Not Even Mine”

  5.                  A Woman’s Scorn                                                                                                 

  6.                  Following the Communist Line                                                                     

  7.                  African Roots "Roots"                                                                                                           

  8.                  Caribbean Summer                                     

  9.                  Back  to Africa                                                                                                         

10.                 Marcus GarveyAgain                                                                                          

11.                 The End                                                                                                                                           

12.                 "Amy"                                                                                                                         

Appendices

1.     Marcus and Amy at St. Ann’s Bay, 1915"   

2.    Jamaica Farewell: Amy  Leaves for Panama                                                                                                               

3.      Amy Ashwood Garvey" ,  “Deponent  Denies Most  Emphatically Having   Extramarital Sex”

4.      Marcus Garvey, “She Was Trying to Return to the Life I  Sought  to Reclaim Her From”

5.      Amy Ashwood" , “Letters From Panama

6.      Marcus Garvey" , “The State of My Personal Finances”

7.      Marcus Garvey" , “Alimony Payments”

8.      Amy Ashwood Garvey" , “I Will Fight  Marcus Garvey"    to the Finish”

9.       Delos Johnson  Amy"  Ashwood  Garvey Consume by Fires  of Vengeance, Tells of Lack  of Sex Appeal of  UNIA   Leader

10.     J. Edgar Hoover ,Amy Ashwood Garvey , Emancipation  ,Federation, Communism  and  Adam Clayton Powell , Jr.” 

11.     Amy Ashwood Garvey "Trinidad  Has a Way  of  Its Own"

12.      Amy Ashwood Garvey  , My Ashanti Roots

13.      Amy Ashwood Garvey, “The Black Woman”

14.       Amy Jacques Garvey , “It Would be Spiteful to Invite  Ashwood Garvey  to Garvey’s   Re-Interment: As Money Is

             All She Wants, Give Her Some Cash Instead "

15.       Tony Martin, “In the Footsteps of Amy Ashwood Garvey To Kumasi and Darman   in 1990”

Bibliography                                                                                                  

        Index


 
 Amy Ashwood Garvey   2007.x v+454pp.+21photos          $39.95 (cloth).       ISBN 0-912469-06-4
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Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association   by Tony Martin

The classic study of the Garvey Movement.  

" Martin's study is the most thoroughly researched book on Garvey's ideas...."

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Contents :
1.Introduction :Marcus Mosiah Garvey , 1887-1940
2. Race First and Self reliance
3. Nationhood
4.Religion
5. History
6.Propaganda
7.Africa
8.The Black Star Line
9. U.S.A versus UNIA
10. Garvey and the Communists
11.Of the NAACP and Integrationists ,and Garvey and Separatists, Or, the Integrationist Onslaught 
12.The Ku Klux Klan, White Supremacy and Garvey - A Symbiotic Relationship
Afterword
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
 Race First    1976.x +421pp.          $18.95 (paper).                ISBN 0-912469-23-4                  
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  The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey. 

Edited by Amy Jacques Garvey.

The most famous collection of Garvey's speeches and essays, originally compiled by his wife in two volumes in 1923 and 1925.

A Black Bookstore Bestseller !!

Among the Contents: ( two volumes bound in one)
 
God as a Warlord
The Slave Trade
Negroes' Status Under Alien Governments
White Man's Solution For The Negro Problem In America
The True Solution of The Negro Problem
White Propaganda About Africa
Booker T. Washington's Program
Shall The Negro Be Exterminated?
Africa for Africans
Emancipation Speech
Christmas Message 
Easter Sermon
Who and What Is a Negro ?
An Appeal To The Conscience of The Black Race
Christ, The First Great Reformer
An Expose of the Caste System Among Negroes
The Negro, Communism and His Friend
Capitalism and the State
What We Believe 
History and The Negro
The Negro's Greatest Enemy
Declaration of  Rights of the Negroes of The World
Address to the Jury at close of Trial
First Message From Atlanta Prison
Application For Pardon and Reply
Eight Negroes vs Marcus Garvey
W. E. B. DuBois- Hater  of Dark People
Eli Garcia's Confidential Report  
Philosophy & Opinions        1986. 660 pp.       $18.95 paper.                  ISBN 0-912469-24-2
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Marcus Garvey Hero : A First Biography by Tony Martin

" The strengths of this introductory biography are its readability, its straightforward organization and its comprehensive[ness]...".

JOURNAL OF CARIBBEAN HISTORY

Contents:
1. Early Life: 1887-1910
2.  Travels in Latin America and Europe : 1910-1914
3.Birth of The UNIA : 1914-1916
4. From Jamaica to the U.S. A.: 1916-1918  
5. Garveysim Sweeps The World: 1918-1922
6. Garveyism in the West Indies and Latin America : 1920s
7.Garveyism in Africa : 1920s
8. Garveyism in North America, Europe and Australia: 1920s
9. Enemies Within and Without 
10. Back To Jamaica : 1927-1935
11. Last London Years: 1935-1940
12. Marcus Garvey, Hero
13. Conclusion
Some Suggestions For Further Reading
Index
Marcus Garvey Hero        1983.x +179pp.     $12.95 paper.                       ISBN 0-912469-05-6
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Literary Garveyism : Garvey, Black Arts and the Harlem Renaissance by Tony Martin

" Martin performs a valuable service....[Garvey's literary contribution] has been largely overlooked in studies such as Nathan Huggins's Harlem Renaissance, David Levering Lewis's When Harlem was in Vogue and Jervis Anderson's This Was Harlem." 

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Contents:
 
1. Garvey, Black Arts and the Harlem Renaissance
2. The Garvey Aesthetic
3. Garveyism and Literature
4.Poetry For The People
5. Book Reviews
6. Music, Drama , Art and Elocution
7. The Defectors- Eric Walrond and Claude McKay
8. Garvey the Poet
9. Conclusion
 Notes
Bibliography
Index 
Literary Garveyism        1983.xii +220pp.         $9.95 paper.  Illus.             ISBN 0-912469-01-3
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The Poetical Works of Marcus Garvey  

Compiled and edited  by Tony Martin

" There are several memorable lines in The Poetical Works of Marcus Garvey, that assume the authority of aphorism." 

THE BLACK SCHOLAR

Garvey's little known poetic work is collected here for the first time.

Contents:

1. The Tragedy of White Injustice (1927)
2. Selections from The Poetic Meditations of Marcus Garvey (1927)
3. " Keep Cool (1927)
4. From the "Negro World ",(1927)
5.From "The Black Man ",(1933-1939)
6. From "UNIA  Convention Hymns", (1934)
7. Bibliographical Note.   
Poetical Works      1983viii  +123pp.    $17.95 (cloth/presently out of  stock )              $9.95 (paper).          ISBN 0-912469-02-1. 
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Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy by Marcus Garvey .  Edited by Tony Martin. Foreword by Hon. Charles L. James, President General, Universal Negro Improvement Association. 

The nearest thing to a full length book ever written by Marcus Garvey.

"[T]here is nothing quite like it in Black history." 

STAR (Jamaica).

Contents:
 
1. Intelligence, Education, Universal Knowledge and How to Get It
2. Leadership
3. Aims and Objectives of the UNIA
4. Elocution
5. God
6. Christ
7.Character
8. The Social System
9. Diplomacy
10. Economy
11. Man 
12. The Purpose of Institutions
13. The Universe 
14. Self initiative
15. Personality
16. Propaganda
17. Communism
18. Commercial and Industrial Transactions
19. Winning Mankind by Kindness
20. Living For Something
21. History of the UNIA
22. The Five Year Plan of the UNIA
Notes
Index
Message to the People     1986.xxiv +251pp     $22.95 (cloth)    $14.95(paper). ISBN 0-912469-18-8 (cloth)      ISBN 0-912469-19-6 (paper).

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  The Writing and Reception of Race First : Marcus Garvey and the Battle for Black History by Tony Martin

This pamphlet has been out of print for many years. It is beautifully produced on heavy stock with several fine illustrations by Tacoumba. There is a limited number available. Mint condition.

The Writing and Reception of Race First      1978, 16pp        $15.00 paper.              ISBN 0-912469-49-8

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  The Pan African Connection :From Slavery to Garvey and Beyond by Tony Martin

Essays on the Pan African Conference of 1900, The Caribbean and Africa, C.L.R James, George Padmore, Black Missionaries to Africa, Frantz Fanon and more.

 

 

Contents:
 
Part 1 - Essays
1. The Caribbean and Africa - Historical Perspectives
2. Some Reflections on Evangelical Pan-Africanism, or Black Missionaries, White Missionaries and the Struggle for African Souls, 1890-1930.
3. Revolutionary Upheaval in Trinidad, 1919: Gleanings from British and American Sources.
4. Marcus Garvey and the West Indies.
5. Marcus Garvey and Trinidad, 1912-1947.
6. Attempts to Bring Garvey Back to The United States.
7. Carter G. Woodson and Marcus Garvey.
8. Garvey and the Beginnings of Mass Based Party Politics in Jamaica.
9. Marcus Garvey and Southern Africa.
10. George Padmore as the Prototype of the Black Historian in the Age of Militancy.
11. C.L.R. James and the Race/Class Question.
12. Rescuing Fanon from the Critics.
 
Part 11- Documents
13. Benito Sylvain of Haiti on the Pan African Conference of 1900.
14. The Yorubas of Carapichaima, Trinidad, pre 1910( by Sam Manning.)
15. The Birth of the Universal Negro Improvement Association ( By Amy Ashwood Garvey.)
16. My Advent, Work, Persecution, Indictment, Conviction, Appeal, Imprisonment and Liberation in the United States of America - The Land of My Friends and My Enemies. (by Marcus Garvey)
 
Index. 

 

Pan African Connection        1983. xii +252pp.        $12.95 paper.              ISBN 0-912469-11-0

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