Thread by @ShakaRaSpeaks

Today is the birthday of QUEEN MAMA AMY JACQUES EUPHEMIA GARVEY, activist, journalist, Secretary General & leading member of the UNIA-ACL and 2nd wife of Marcus Mosiah Garvey.

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Upon joining the UNIA-ACL, Mama Amy took on the thankless task of...

Secretary General, ensuring that the administration of the organisation maintained impeccable standards.

With the founding of the Negro World Newspaper in 1918, she initiated and edited the "Our Women & What They Think" page, where African women from around the world found...

voice - contributing to the Nation Building efforts of the UNIA-ACL. A prolific writer in her own right, she penned many passionate editorials on the role of Black women in the Liberation fight as Activists as well family women. she compromised neither role in favour of the other

Mama Amy was also a brilliant orator, well sought after in helping to building the UNIA-ACL through the USA & the Caribbean. She would travel with & without her husband breaking down the principles and program of the organisation and ensuring the development of...

institutions such as the Black Cross Nurses.

It was Amy Jacques Garvey who compiled Philosophy & Opinions of Marcus Garvey Vol 1, 2, & 3. The first volume was compiled while Papa Garvey was in Prison and the American Government were engaged in a relentless onslaught against the

... UNIA.

During this time, as well as after the passing of Papa Garvey, Mama Amy had to assuming increasingly leading roles of the UNIA-ACL. She asserted herself as a woman in the midst of some men who challenged her qualification for such position.

In 1944, Mama Jacques-Garvey wrote, "A Memorandum Correlative of Africa, West Indies and the Americas", which became some what of a manifesto of Pan-African activists of the world. In it she called for the development of an African Freedom Charter to be put before and...

adopted by the UNIA. The aim of this was the decolonisation of the continent. Mama Amy played a key, but very often forgotten role in the organisation of the much celebrated 5th Pan-African Congress in 1945; the congress that is said to have generated the final organisational...

push towards the Mass movement that decolonised African nations.

As a mother of 2 in Jamaica she not only raised her sons, but taught the younger generations about the work of Papa Garvey, the mission of the UNIA & the evolution of the Liberation fight in general. She founded...

the "African Study Circle of the World", providing the youth a Black Nationalist Pan-Africanist education that was absent from Jamaica Mainstream. Many young activists, including the likes of Mutabaruka, would visit her home to be educated, schooled and guided in their efforts.

It is a testimony to her dedication that her son, Marcus Garvey Jr, went on to become President General of the UNIA-ACL.

Mama Amy Jacques stands as a stall wart freedom fighter and an example of what it means to foreground African Womanhood, within the African Liberation Fight!

Queen Mama Amy Jacques, we Honour You.