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Carolyn Cooper, Contributor

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“… I remember mentally promising Mr. Garvey when I was seventeen years old, that I would call his name every day of my life until his name began to rise again.”

Sister Samad, as she was affectionately called, spent her life fulfilling this promise she made to Garvey on the occasion of his death in 1940. As a member of the UNIA’S Juveniles, she spent most of her life living up to the ideals of Garveyism.

Though not Jamaican by birth, we claim her as one of our daughters as she made Jamaica her home after settling here in 1976 with her Jamaican husband. Here, she spent most of her time teaching and lecturing youth on Garveyism and Africa. She made her home into an intellectual space which attracted many scholars as well as those who yearned for knowledge on Garvey, Africa and Pan-Africanism. Every last Saturday of the month, she would open her doors to anyone who was seriously interested in learning about Garvey and the Mother country, Africa. In fact, several Garvey scholars benefitted from Sister Samad’s wealth of knowledge and book collection; of note are Tony Martin, Prof. Rupert Lewis and Beverly Hamilton.

Here at Liberty Hall, Sister Samad was highly respected. She was an avid supporter of our events. She would always arrive in her trusted taxi and sit on the

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Leroy DavisAssociate Professor of History and African American Studies

Leroy Davis, (B.A., Howard University, 1976; M.A., 1978; Ph.D., Kent State University, 1990); 20th Century African American and American history, 20th Century African Diaspora.

I am especially interested in cross-cultural experiences of African descendant peoples throughout the African Diaspora, which is the focus of my current research project tentatively entitled “Without Apology: The Life of Mariamne Samad, 20th Century Black Nationalist in Harlem and Jamaica.” The work is a working-class life history or biography of Harlem-born Mariamne Samad, a 90 year-old black cultural nationalist whose parents were followers of Marcus Garvey. Samad’s life experiences include family connections in Sierra Leone in West Africa, Georgetown, Guyana (her father’s birthplace) in South America, and Kingston, Jamaica (where she still resides) in the Caribbean.

I am especially interested in immigrant and emigrant identities as they adjust to realities in different geographical spaces with both similar and different definitions of race. I am also interested in how issues of class, gender, complexion and religion (she is Muslim) also complicate interactions between nationals and expa