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 Tony Martin

Books by The Majority Press : 

Race First : The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus  Garvey and the  Universal Negro Improvement Association.

Marcus Garvey Hero: A First Biography

African Fundamentalism : A Literary and Cultural Anthology of Garvey's Harlem Renaissance

Literary Garveyism: Garvey, Black Arts and the Harlem

The Poetical Works of Marcus Garvey ( compiled and edited) 

The Pan- African Connection: From Slavery to Garvey and Beyond

In Nobody's Backyard : The Grenada Revolution in Its Own Words  (edited by Tony Martin with Dessima Williams.)

The Jewish Onslaught : Dispatches from the Wellesley Battlefront.

Amy Ashwood Garvey: Pan-Africanist, Feminist and  Mrs. Marcus Garvey No. 1 Or A Tale of Two Amies

 The Writing and Recption of Race First
 

TONY MARTIN

Tony Martin has taught at Wellesley College, Massachusetts since 1973. He was tenured in 1975 and has been a full professor of Africana Studies since 1979. Prior to coming to Wellesley he taught at the University of Michigan-Flint, the Cipriani Labour College (Trinidad) and St. Mary's College (Trinidad). He has been a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota, Brandeis University, Brown University and The Colorado College. He also spent a year as an honorary research fellow at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad.

Professor Martin has authored, compiled or edited eleven books, including Literary Garveyism: Garvey, Black Arts and the Harlem Renaissance, and the classic study of the Garvey Movement, Race First: the Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association. His most recent project was the republication of Eric Williams and E. Franklin Frazier, Eds, The Economic Future of the Caribbean (1944). Martin qualified as a barrister-at-law at the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn (London), did a B.Sc. honours degree in economics at the University of Hull (England) and the M.A. and Ph.D. in history at Michigan State University.

Martin's articles and reviews have appeared in such journals as the Journal of Negro History, American Historical Review, African Studies Review, Washington Post Book World, Journal of Caribbean History, Journal of American History, Black Books Bulletin, Jamaica Journal, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East and many others.

His writings are to be found in several reference works and encyclopedias, including the UNESCO General History of the Caribbean, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the Encyclopedia of African American Business History, Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia and Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. He has received numerous academic and community awards, including a grant from the American Philosophical Society. He has served as a reviewer of articles and programs for scholarly journals, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Austrian Science Fund. His biographical listings can be found in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, Personalities Caribbean, Who’s Who Among African Americans and elsewhere. He has been a reviewer and consultant for publishers and has served as an expert witness for Congressional hearings.

Martin is well known as a lecturer in many countries. He has spoken to university and general audiences all over the United States, Canada, the Caribbean and England, and also in Africa, Australia, Bermuda and South America. In 1990 he delivered the annual DuBois/Padmore/Nkrumah Pan-African lectures in Ghana. In 2004 he was one of the principal speakers at the First Conference of  Intellectuals of Africa and the Diaspora  sponsored by the African Union in Senegal.

Email Tony Martin at tony@themajoritypress.com

 
 Tyrone Powers

Books by The Majority Press : Eyes to My Soul - The Rise or Decline of a Black FBI Agent.
 Tyrone Powers is a professor of Criminal Justice at Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold , Maryland and an adjunct professor at Coppin State University. He was an FBI special agent for 9 years. 

Rev Wally G.Vaughn & Rev. Richard W. Wills

Books by The Majority Press : Reflections on Our Pastor: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  

THE SELMA CAMPAIGN 1963-1965: THE DECISIVE BATTLE OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
 


Wally G. Vaughn is a native of Sumter, S.C. He successfully completed studies at Virginia Union University, Richmond, VA., B.A., 1976; School of Theology at Virginia Union, M. Div., 1980; Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, N.J., Th. M., 1991; and United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio, D.Min., 2001. He is a chaplain in the United States Air Force, endorsed to serve by the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. Chaplain Vaughn is the author of two other books. Reverend Vaughn is a Life Member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. He and his wife, Geraldine, have two children, Wallisa and Wally, Jr.

Rev. Richard W. Wills was assistant pastor of Canaan Baptist Church of Christ, Harlem , New York. He was pastor of Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist  Church from 1992-1995.

 
Abdias do Nascimento

Books by The Majority Press : Brazil: Mixture or Massacre ? Essays on the Genocide of Black People. 
Abdias do Nascimento is Professor Emertius of the State University of New York at Buffalo, Puerto Rican Studies and Research Center. Founder of the Black Experimental Theater in Rio de Janeiro in 1944, he was also the first Afro-Brazilian congressman  elected specifically to defend Black people's human and civil rights in the Brazilian civil legislature (1982-1986). He is now President of the Afro-Brazilian Studies and Research Institute (PEAFRO) of Rio de Janeiro.
Maureen Warner -Lewis

Books by The Majority Press : Guinea's Other Suns: The African Dynamic in Trinidad Culture 
Maureen Warner -Lewis (Ph.D. Linguistics)  is a specialist in African and comparative Afro-Caribbean cultures. She is an associate professor in the Department of English, University of the West Indies, Jamaica campus, where she lectures on African, West Indian and Oral Literatures.
Dudley Thompson

Books by The Majority Press : From Kingston to Kenya: The Making of a Pan- Africanist Lawyer 
Dudley Thompson  was born in Panama and raised to manhood in Jamaica. After attending Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, he practiced law in Tanzania and Kenya in the early 1950's. He quickly became involved in the nationalist struggles of both countries and was a close friend of both Jumo Kenyatta and Julius Nyrere. Dudley Thompson has  been Jamaican Ambassador to several African countries and a cabinet  minister in Jamaica.   
Paloma Mohamed

Books by The Majority Press : Song : Poems

A Man Called Garvey

Caribbean Mythology and Modern Life
Paloma Mohamed emerged as a leading voice in Guyanese literature during the late 1980s. She is now considered an important Caribbean poet and dramatist. She has been the recipient of several prizes for literature, including the prestigious Guyana Prize which she won twice [1998 and 2000] for drama. She has taught creative writing and drama in her native Guyana. Paloma Mohamed works as a communications strategist consulting on social and human development issues within the UN system.  

Email Paloma Mohamed at bluvid@themajoritypress.com
Robert Harris

Books by The Majority Press : Carlos Cooks: And Black Nationalism from Garvey to Malcom 
 Robert Harris was a leading official in Carlos Cooks' African Nationalist Pioneer Movement . 
Florie-N

Books by The Majority Press : Marcus Garvey/  Makis Gave ( a children's book on Marcus Garvey for elementary grades.) 
  Florie-N  is a Haitian-born elementary school teacher who currently lives and works in the United States. 
A. M. Clarke  

Books by The Majority Press :Best Poems of Trinidad (1943) 
 A. M. Clarke, former teacher and lawyer, has been a leading literary figure in Trinidad and Tobago for over seventy years.  He was presented with the first  Poets of the City of Port of Spain Award in June 1999 by the Circle of Poets  of Trinidad and Tobago and the  Port of Spain City Corporation.
Marcus Mosiah Garvey  

Books by The Majority Press : Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy

The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey (edited by Amy Jacques Garvey)

The Poetical Works of Marcus Garvey
 Marcus Mosiah Garvey   founded and led the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (usually rendered UNIA), the largest mass movement in African American history.  The UNIA flourished from about l9l9 to the mid-l920s and existed in  over forty countries.   Estimates of its membership range from one to eleven million worldwide, making the UNIA also the largest Pan-African movement of all time.    
                Garvey's impact was unparalled in his heyday.  He was implicated in anti-colonial activity in Africa and the Caribbean.  He supported anti-colonial movements  in Ireland, India and Morocco.  He had a tremendous influence on the beginnings of the Harlem Renaissance in the United States.  He began work on a Universal Political Union to harness African American voting power.  His organization served as a training school for such future leaders as the parents of Malcolm X, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad of the Nation of Islam, Carlos Cooks of the African Nationalist Pioneer Movement, Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and many others.  In his travels Garvey was often afforded the courtesies of a head of state, despite intense hostility from the imperialist nations of Europe and North America.
                
Garvey was born on August l7, l887 in St. Anns Bay, Jamaica to Marcus and Sarah Garvey.  He had one surviving sibling, a sister Indiana.  His father was a stonemason with a love for reading and a library in his home.  His parents sometimes engaged in small scale peasant farming.
                It is difficult to surpass the eloquence of Garvey's own account of his beginnings -
 
                                                I was born in the Island of Jamaica,
                                British West Indies, on August l7, l887.  My
                                father was a man of brilliant intellect and
                                dashing courage.  He was unafraid of consequences.
                                He took human chances in the course of life, as most
                                bold men do, and he failed at the close of his career. 
                                He once had a fortune; he died poor.  My mother was
                                a sober and conscientious Christian,  too soft
                                and good for the time in which she lived. 
                                She was the direct opposite of my father.
                                He was severe, firm, determined, bold and
                                strong, refusing to yield even to superior forces
                                if he believed he was right.  My mother, on the
                                other hand, was always willing to return a smile
                                for a blow, and ever ready to bestow charity
                                upon her enemy.  Of this strange combination I
                                was born thirty-six years ago, and ushered into
                                a world of sin, the flesh and the devil.                                                                                                                                                            
Amy Jacques Garvey

Books by The Majority Press : The Philosophy and  Opinions or Marcus Garvey  (edited by Amy Jacques Garvey.)
Amy Jacques Garvey ( 1896 -1973),  was the second wife of Marcus Mosiah Garvey and the mother of his two sons. She was an editor of The Negro World.  She authored and edited several books on  Marcus Garvey and Garveyism. She was  born in Jamaica.

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