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Garvey, Amy Jacques

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Personal name headingGarvey, Amy Jacques
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Variant(s)Jacques-Garvey, Amy
Jacques, Amy
Associated countryUnited States
LocatedKingston (Jamaica) New York (N.Y.)
Birth date1895-12-31
Death date1973-07-25
Place of birthKingston (Jamaica)
Place of deathKingston (Jamaica)
AffiliationUniversal Negro Improvement Association
Profession or occupationCivil rights workers Authors
Found inGarvey, M. More philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey, 1977: t.p. (Amy Jacques Garvey) p. xi (d. 1973)
Garvey, M. Philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey, 1992: CIP t.p. (Amy Jacques-Garvey)
Taylor, U.Y. The veiled Garvey, 2002: CIP t.p. (Amy Jacques Garvey) CIP info. (Amy Jacques, b. Dec. 31, 1895 to middle-class parents in Jamaica; Marcus Garvey's private secretary and later 2nd wife; in 1922 Jacques married Marcus Garvey)
African American women, 1993: pages 198-199 (Amy Jacques Garvey, 1896-1973. Born and educated in Kingston, Jamaica, then migrated to the United States where in 1917 she became private secretary to Marcus Garvey in New York, married him, then became editor of the "Our Women and What they Think" section in the "Negro World" newspaper and of two volumes of "Philosophy and Opinions" by her husband and spokesperson for him in the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) when he was in jail. Following his deportation, she and her husband moved to France, England, and Germany, then settled in Jamaica. Died on July 25, 1973 in Kingston, Jamaica.)
Associated languageeng