Vicki Garvin

Vicki Garvin (1915–2007) was an activist.^[1] She joined the Communist Party in 1947.^[1] In the 1950s she worked as vice president of the National Negro Labor Council and as executive secretary in the council's New York chapter.^[2] She moved to Africa in the late 1950s, and while there helped organize Malcolm X's itinerary while he was in Ghana.^[2][3] From 1964 to 1971 she taught English in China.^[2] She returned to the United States in the 1970s, where she was part of rallies in support of some prisoners (for example, Mumia Abu Jamal) and did public speaking.^[2]

The Vicki Garvin papers (1923–1998) are held at the New York Public Library, in the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.^[4]

References

1. Caneisha Mills. "Women's leadership and the Black liberation struggle". Liberation School.
2. Cornel West; Christa Buschendorf (7 October 2014). Black Prophetic Fire. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-0353-4.
3. James T. Campbell (24 April 2007). Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005. Penguin Group USA. pp. 354–. ISBN 978-0-14-311198-6.
4. "Vicki Garvin papers, 1923-1998 (Archival material, 1923)". [WorldCat.org]. 1999-02-22. Retrieved 2015-11-09.

Further reading

• "'To Live and Work in Africa:' African American Women, Cold War Travels and Transnational Politics in Ghana, 1957-1963", by Dayo Gore, paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association (2006) [about Vicki Garvin and others]
• Vicki Ama Garvin (1915-2007), Organizer and Pan-African Internationalist, by Pan-African News Wire (2007)
• "From Communist Politics to Black Power: The Visionary Politics and Transnational Solidarities of Victoria Ama Garvin" in Want to Start A Revolution? Radical Women In The Black Freedom Struggle (2009), edited by Dayo Gore, Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodard
• Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War, by Dayo Gore [about Vicki Garvin and others] (2011)