Amy Ashwood Garvey

aka Amy Ashwood, Iyalode Akosua Boahemaa

KS2

• Amy Ashwood was born in Jamaica in 1897.
• Amy Ashwood was briefly married to Jamaica’s first National Hero Marcus Mosiah Garvey, between 1919 - 1922.
• Amy Ashwood Garvey founded and co-founded many organisations dedicated to obtaining the freedom of African descent people throughout the world.
• Amy Ashwood Garvey travelled the world lecturing and campaigning for Pan-Africanism.
• Amy Ashwood Garvey was a key organiser of the 5th Pan-African Congress held in Manchester, UK in 1945.
• Ashwood Garvey campaigned against racial discrimination throughout the British Empire as she pursued equal rights for all.
• Amy Ashwood Garvey is known as the ‘Mother’ of Pan-Africanism because of her leadership and civil rights work in the Caribbean Africa, UK, and the USA.

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