Amy Ashwood Garvey Memorabilia
Scope and Contents
The collection, containing an envelope and a long-playing record, sheds light on the friendship between Amy Ashwood Garvey and Thelma Rogers of Trinidad and Tobago. They met while Amy Garvey was in Trinidad and Tobago during 1954-55, lecturing to women's organizations. It also records their involvement with an Afro-Women's Centre in London. Rogers admits that her life was never the same after meeting Garvey, who was a source of inspiration to her. The long-playing record consists of recollections of Marcus Garvey, narrated by his wife. The record entitled 'Up you Mighty race" is stored in the audiovisual collection.
Dates
- Creation: 1954-1967
Biographical / Historical
Amy Ashwood Garvey was the first wife of Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Their 1919 marriage was short-lived as, three years later (1922), he married his second wife Amy Jacques Garvey. Biographer Tony Martin describes Amy Ashwood Garvey as a "precocious child who grew into a talented, attractive woman of expansive horizons and boundless energy ... A restless figure, she lived or sojourned in Jamaica, Panama, the United States, England, Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria, Trinidad and Tobago and Las Palmas, among other places."
Extent
0.25 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Thelma Rogers in September 1989.
- Title
- Amy Ashwood Garvey Memorabilia
- Status
- Completed
- Subtitle
- Ashwood Garvey, Amy Memorabilia
- Author
- Special Collections Department
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the The Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies Repository
St. Augustine
Trinidad and Tobago
868-662-2002 Ext 82132
868-662-9238 (Fax)