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At 6 pm Donald Innis, who is preparing to leave tomorrow morning by boat for Canada, took me to visit his new acquaintances at 12 Beaumont Road, August Town (Figure 1.5)—Mr Ralph Fitzherbert (54), Miss Clara Armstrong (56), Susie1 (16), and Ricky (3). The children are in some loose way related to Miss Clara. Miss Clara is light in color and quite passive. Mr Fitz is dark, articulate, and impressive. He has a UNIA flag and black star. He asked me to read his life horoscope.
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The TUC was the original union affiliated to the PNP. After the purging of the left wing of the party (the 4 Hs—Richard Hart, Ken Hill, Frank Hill, and Arthur Henry) in 1952, the TUC, which was thought to be under their influence, was dropped, and a new labor organization, the National Workers Union (NWU), was created by the PNP under the leadership of Michael Manley, Norman Manley’s younger son (Richard Hart, Time for a Change: Constitutional, Political and Labour Developments in Jamaica and other Colonies in the Caribbean Region, 1944–1955 [Kingston, Jamaica: Arawak Publications, 2004]).
Richard Hart (1917–2013). Solicitor, trade unionist, and politician. Founder-member and advisor to the People’s Freedom Movement, 1954–62, a Marxist political grouping [Trevor Munro, Jamaican Politics: A Marxist Perspective in Transition (Kingston, Jamaica: Heinemann, 1990)]. Hart’s role in left-wing political maneuvrings in 1961 is detailed in the monthly LSIC reports, CO1031/3708 and 9, C410239, TNA, PRO. In 1963 Hart left Jamaica for British Guiana, where he edited Cheddi Jagan’s Peoples Political Party newspaper, the Mirror; in 1965 he moved to the United Kingdom, where he worked as a lawyer in local government for Surrey County Council; from 1982 to 1983 he was Attorney General in the People’s Revolutionary Government in Grenada. After his return to the United Kingdom, he continued to publish a range of books dealing with the social and political history of labor in Jamaica and the Caribbean, often drawing on his own immaculately preserved archive of documents.
Followers of Marcus Garvey (1887–1940). See Amy Jacques Garvey, Garvey and Garveyism (New York: Macmillan, 1963);
Colin Grant, Nejj/ro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey (London: Vintage Books, 2009).
E. B. Castle, Ancient Education and Today (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961).
James Leyburn, The Haitian People (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1941), 288. of Kings, the returned Messiah and Redeemer of Israel (Smith, Augier, and Nettleford, The Ras Tafari Movement in Kingston, Jamaica, 1960, 9).
Robert Hill supports the Rasta queen’s view that Garvey was not a recognized precursor of Ras Tafari, and argues that it was the erroneous assumption of the Report on the Ras Tafari Movement “that it was Garvey who provided the originating impulse of the Rastafari mil-lenarian vision...” (Robert Hill, Dread History: Leonard P. Howell, and Millenarian Visions in the Early Rastafarian Religion [Jamaica: Miguel Lome Publishers, 2001], 14).
David Lowenthal (ed.) The West Indies Federation: Perspectives on a New Nation (New York: Columbia university Press, 1961).
A map of unimproved land values in Kingston, compiled from Mr Jacques’s data, is found in Colin G. Clarke, Kingston, Jamaica: Urban Development and Social Change 1692–1962 (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1975) at Figure 44, 198.
Drumblair was the home of Norman and Edna Manley; its name is commemorated in the title of a memoir written by their granddaughter, Rachel (Rachel Manley, Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood [Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 1996]).
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Clarke, C. (2016). The Ras Tafari Movement, Marxism, and Race. In: Race, Class, and the Politics of Decolonization. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137540782_5
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