{"id":2343,"date":"2021-02-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2026-08-17T21:56:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T21:56:38","slug":"profile-amy-jacques-garvey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/trust-profiles\/profile-amy-jacques-garvey\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Jacques Garvey, Wolmer\u2019s Girls, journalist and Garveyite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Amy Jacques Garvey, the Kingston-born journalist and Pan-African organiser, is dated 1895\u20131973 in the National Library of Jamaica\u2019s catalogue. The <em>Observer<\/em> (24 December 2006) printed a longer school path than later features: St Patrick\u2019s on Windward Road, Deaconess High School (now St Hugh\u2019s), \u201cand then Wolmer\u2019s Girls School.\u201d The <em>Gleaner<\/em> (28 February 2021) called her \u201can astute scholar very early on, performing well at Wolmer\u2019s Girls\u2019 School, before moving to New York.\u201d The <em>Gleaner<\/em> again (7 January 2023) wrote that, \u201cEducated at Wolmer\u2019s High School for Girls,\u201d she did \u201ca short working experience with a law firm in Kingston\u201d \u2014 the <em>Observer<\/em> names the solicitor as T.R. McMillan \u2014 \u201cbefore moving.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the United States in the late 1910s (<em>Gleaner<\/em> 2021: 1917; <em>Observer<\/em> 2006: 1918) she went to a UNIA meeting at Liberty Hall, met Marcus Garvey, and took a job. That paper lists her as secretary to the Negro Factories Corporation, office manager, Garvey\u2019s personal secretary, and associate editor of <em>Negro World<\/em>, where she ran a women\u2019s page including \u201cOur Women and What They Think.\u201d She became Garvey\u2019s second wife. They had two sons, Marcus Jnr and Julius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her most durable editorial work, the <em>Observer<\/em> said, was <em>The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey<\/em>, volumes I and II, issued between 1923 and 1926. Decades later she wrote <em>Garvey and Garveyism<\/em>; when no publisher would take it she printed and sold the book herself. She died in 1973. Two years before, the Institute of Jamaica awarded her the Gold Musgrave Medal. The Governor-General\u2019s Wolmer\u2019s Day proclamation, as the <em>Gleaner<\/em> printed it on 22 May 2019, named her among the school\u2019s journalist, publisher and activist alumni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamaicaobserver.com\/allwoman\/2006\/12\/24\/amy-jacques-garvey-a-lifelong-association-with-the-unia\/\">Jamaica Observer, Amy Jacques Garvey: a lifelong association with the UNIA<\/a>, 24 December 2006; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamaica-gleaner.com\/article\/esponsored\/20210228\/messenger-message-garveyism-amy-jacques-garvey-story\">Jamaica Gleaner, Messenger of the message<\/a>, 28 February 2021; <a href=\"https:\/\/past.jamaica-gleaner.com\/article\/lead-stories\/20230107\/struggle-black-freedom-continues-rev-gayle\">Jamaica Gleaner, Struggle for Black freedom continues<\/a>, 7 January 2023; <a href=\"https:\/\/nljdigital.nlj.gov.jm\/items\/show\/6728\">National Library of Jamaica catalogue<\/a>, 1895\u20131973.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Jacques Garvey, the Kingston-born journalist and Pan-African organiser, is dated 1895\u20131973 in the National Library of Jamaica\u2019s catalogue. 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