This Day in Black History: Dec. 31, 1896
Amy E.J. Garvey, historian, journalist, Pan-Africanist and second wife of Marcus Garvey, is born in Kingston, Jamaica.
By Jamie Katz
December 31, 2011 / 7:00 AM
<p><i>(Photo: The Amy Jacques Garvey Institute)</i></p>
<p>Born and educated in Jamaica, <a href="http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/amy-j-garvey-stood-her-principles" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Amy E.J. Garvey</a> served as <a href="http://www.biography.com/people/marcus-garvey-9307319" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Marcus Garvey</a>'s secretary at the <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/garvey/peopleevents/e_unia.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Universal Negro Improvement Association</a> (UNIA); they were married in 1922. She edited the women's page of the UNIA's weekly newspaper, and later published several books, among them <i>Black Power in America</i>, in 1968. She died in 1973.</p>
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