Tony Martin (historian)

Anthony Claude "Tony" Martin (born February 21, 1942 in Port of Spain , Trinidad and Tobago , † January 17, 2013 in Trinidad and Tobago) was a history professor at Wellesley College , who through his support of theses about a prominent role of Jews was at the center of heated controversy in the US and England in the slave trade.

life and work

Martin had Caribbean roots, studied law and was admitted to the bar at Gray's Inn in London from 1965 and also in Trinidad from 1968. He then studied economics at the University of Hull (Bachelor 1968) and history at Michigan State University , where he made his master's degree in 1970 and received his doctorate in 1973. 1971 to 1973 he was Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of Michigan at Flint and then at Wellesley College, where he was Associate Professor in 1975 and Professor in 1979. In 2007 he retired. He was also visiting professor at the University of Minnesota, Colorado College, Brown University , Brandeis University and lecturer and visiting scholar at e.g. B. in Trinidad (Cipriani's Labor College, St. Mary College) and Ghana. He was co-editor of the Journal of Black Studies and the Journal of African American History and u. a. from 1988 to 1990 director of the board of directors of the Caribbean Cultural Center in New York City.

His specialty was the movement of Marcus Garvey . Martin attracted attention in 1993 with his book The Jewish Onslaught , in which he sought to prove a dominant role of Jews not only in the transatlantic slave trade , but also for several centuries in the slave trade in Europe and Africa and in which he sought to defend himself against attacks by Jewish circles in particular USA resisted. He also went into the history of Jewish-Afro-American relations in the United States and the negative image of the civil rights movement in “Jewish” media by Afro-American intellectuals. Martin had previously made similar statements in his lectures on the role of Jews in the slave trade and had used a controversial book on the subject by the Nation of Islam ( The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews , 1991), which was accused of anti-Semitism, in his courses. He was then violently attacked. Wellesley College Rector Diana Chapman Walsh officially distanced herself from Martin's book shortly after it was published, and his faculty supervisor Selwyn Cudjoe and a public resolution by many of his colleagues even called it anti-Semitic. The American Historical Association also distanced itself from all attempts to assign Jews a disproportionately high share of the slave trade. In contrast, he received support from African-American intellectual circles. When London Mayor Ken Livingstone dismissed Martin from a planned lecture in 2003 because of the allegations against his book, Livingstone came under massive "attack" by the London black organizations. Martin also lectured at a conference organized by history revisionist and Holocaust denier David Irving in 2001 in Cincinnati.

Martin was a US citizen.

Works

• Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association , 1976, Dover, The Majority Press 421 pages, ISBN 0-912469-23-4
• The Writing and Reception of Race First: Marcus Garvey and the Battle for Black History , Dover, The Majority Press, 1978
• Marcus Garvey Hero: A First Biography , 1983, Dover, The Majority Press, ISBN 978-0-912469-05-8
• African Fundamentalism: A Literary and Cultural Anthology of Garvey's Harlem Renaissance , ISBN 978-0-912469-09-6
• Literary Garveyism: Garvey, Black Arts and the Harlem , 1983, Dover, The Majority Press, ISBN 978-0-912469-01-0
• Amy Ashwood Garvey, Pan-Africanist, Feminist and Mrs. Marcus Garvey No 1, Or, A Tale of Two Amies
• The Poetical Works of Marcus Garvey (compilation and adaptation)
• The Pan-African Connection: From Slavery to Garvey and Beyond , ISBN 978-0-912469-11-9
• In Nobody's Backyard: The Grenada Revolution in Its Own Words , edited by Tony Martin and Dessima Williams , 2 vols., 1984, Dover, Massachusetts, The Majority Press.
• The Jewish Onslaught: Dispatches from the Wellesley Battlefront , 1993, Dover, The Majority Press, ISBN 978-0-912469-30-0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical data and academic career in Marquis Who's Who , an Anglo-Saxon standard reference work.
2. ↑ Renowned Garvey scholar passes , Jamaica Gleaner, January 23, 2013. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
3. ↑ Tony Martin's lecture on the control of the slave trade by Jews
4. ↑ Contents of his book on a Pro-Martin website ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ ADL Report Cites Historical Distortions and Anti-Jewish Agenda in Wellesley Professor's Book ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release of the Anti Defamation League of October 13, 1995. There is also a quote from the statement by Cudjoe, who calls Martin's book gangsta history . 
6. ↑ Open letter from Martin in the matter of Livingstone and his advisor Lee Jasper ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Tony Martin's website
• biography
• Martin's response to attacks in Wellesley on his book