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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. The New Marcus Garvey Library, No. 4. (Dover, Mass.: Majority Press, 2007. Pp. 450. $40.00, ISBN 0-912469-06-4.)
Tony Martin, who has devoted his lengthy scholarly career to documenting Marcus Garvey' s singular importance among leaders in the African diaspora, now turns to Garvey's first wife and Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) cofounder, Amy Ashwood Garvey. For anyone interested in the development of this global black nationalist organization between 1914 and 1920, this book provides some essential detail and perspective gleaned from Ashwood' s privately held correspondence and papers, dozens of interviews, and an array of sources from U.S., Caribbean, and West African repositories. Beyond this contribution to Garvey studies, the book traces the global travels and relentless activism of an ambitious yet deeply flawed woman....