The Garvey-Manley Fight

Most discussion around discourse among Jamaica’s national heroes whose life and work was throughout the 20th century usually entails Alexander Bustamante and Norman Washington Manley as their roles as president of Jamaica's two main political parties in the 1940’s and beyond. However, in this episode we looked at discourse that took place between Norman Manley and another national hero - Marcus Mosiah Garvey. Marcus Garvey, then a councillor in the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation and Norman Manley, at the time a barrister who was developing a reputation as one of the best in the region, would go head to head in 1934 at a KSAC meeting over a gas station dispute. Even before that, both men would meet in a legal issue where Garvey was alleged to have been married to two women at the same time, a fact unknown to both “wives”, one of the wives, Amy Ashwood, brought a legal case against him.

Additional Knowledge

BOOKS

  • Amy Ashwood Garvey: Pan-Africanist, Feminist, and Wife No. 1 by Tony Martin

  • Lawyer Manley: First Time Up by Jackie Ranston

  • Marcus Garvey Caribbean Biography Series by Rupert Lewis

  • Negro With A Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey by Colin Grant

  • Norman Washington Manley and The New Jamaica: Selected Speeches and Writings, 1938-68 by Norman Washington Manley

  • N.W. Manley and The Making of Modern Jamaica by Arnold Bertram

  • Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey by Marcus Garvey

  • The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey by Marcus Garvey

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