Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Amy Ashwood Garvey (10 January 1897 11 May 1969) was a Jamaican Pan-Africanist activist and the first wife of Marcus Garvey. Garvey was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica, she spent some years living in Panama. As a child, she was told by grandmother that she was of Ashanti descent. She returned to Jamaica as a teen and attended Westwood High School in Trelawney, where she met Marcus Garvey , with whom she founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in 1914.