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Amy Jacques Garvey was one of the pioneer Black female journalists and publishers of the 20th century, a fact that is often overlooked by historians. 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 . She became the second wife of Negro World publisher, Pan-Africanist and UNIA-ACL President General Marcus Garvey when they married on July 27 , 1922 . During her tenture from 1924 to 1927 as a Negro World Associate Editor, Amy Jacques Garvey added a page called "Our Women and What They Think". She is mother to Garvey's two sons, Marcus Jr. and Julius. Amy Jacques was primarily responsible for the publication in the 1920's 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. Even after Garvey's death, Amy Jacques persevered and remained true to the on-going quest for African liberation championed by her husband, writing countless articles and letters. In November 1963 Amy Jacques Garvey visited . Amy Jacques Garvey died on July 25 , 1973 , in the city of her birth, Kingston . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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