TONY MARTIN
Dr. Tony Martin's use of "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews", which documents the involvement of Jews in the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade, stirred controversy at Wellesley College in Massachusetts where he has taught in the Department of Africana Studies since 1973. He was tenured in 1975 and earned a full professorship in 1979. Prior to his professorship at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, he has taught at the University Michigan-Flint, the Cipriani Labour College in Trinidad and the St. Mary's College in Trinidad W.I.. His visiting professorships include the University of Minnesota, Brandeis University, Brown University and Colorado College. He was an honorary research fellow at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad for 1 year. His academic achievements include a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics at the University of Hull in England. He received his Masters of Arts degree and his Ph.D degree in History at Michigan State University. In 1965, he qualified as a barrister-at-law at the Honorable Society of Gray's Inn in London, England. He is a prolific writer and has either authored, or compiled and edited 11 books including: " Literary Garveyism - Garvey, Black Arts, the Harlem Renaissance and the classic study of the Garvey movement. " Race First - The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association. The current energies of Dr. Martin are being devoted to the biographies of 3 Caribbean women - Amy Ashwood Garvey, Audrey Jeffers and Trinidad's Kathleen Davis ("Auntie Kay"). He has completed the Afro-Trinidadian - Endangered Species, and a study of European Jewish immigration to Trinidad in the 1930's.