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Book Review
| The Veiled Garvey: The Life & Times of Amy Jacques Garvey. By Ula Yvette Taylor. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xii, 310 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2718-5. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-5386-0.)
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| Amy Jacques Garvey was the second wife of Marcus Mosiah Garvey, the organizer and leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA). Founded in their homeland of Jamaica in 1914 and transplanted to New York City two years later, the UNIA grew into the largest mass movement among people of African descent in the twentieth century. Ula Yvette Taylor's biography outlines Amy Jacques's role in this international movement for African and African diaspora self-determination. |
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During 19201921, Amy Jacques joined Garvey's staff, working as an office manager and screening his mail. When they married in 1922, she was already his most important adviser. After his trial for mail fraud that year and during his subsequent prison term, she was his link to the outside world and the person he trusted most to oversee his international organization. Anxious to recover his reputation, Marcus Garvey asked Amy to edit two volumes of his Philosophy and Opinions (1923, 1925) and distribute them to America's opinion leaders, including members of the United States Congress. |
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