Tony Martin (professor)

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Tony Martin (born 1942) is a Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College and considered by many to be the foremost scholar on the life of Marcus Garvey. +

- He is the author of Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (Greenwood Press), The Pan-African Connection, Literary Garveyism (the last two from The Majority Press) and many other works (www.themajoritypress.com). He co-authored with Wendy Ball Rare Afro-Americana: A Reconstruction of the Adger Library (G.K. Hall and Co., now Macmillan) (www.tonymartin.net.tt).Italic text. Dr. Martin is a prolific author of scholarly articles on many aspects of Black History and has lectured all over the world ([3]

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He is also a barrister from Gray's Inn, London (see [2]).Martin gained some notoriety with the publication of The Jewish Onslaught: Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront (1993), in which he argued among other things that there was a Jewish conspiracy against him arising from his attempts to prove Jewish control of the slave trade, and linked this to what he claimed to be a grand Jewish conspiracy against all Black people throughout history. The Anti-Defamation League has drawn attention to the "historical distortions and anti-Jewish agenda" that it finds in his work. They observe for example that his Blacks and Jews Newspage links to the web sites of Holocaust denial groups. In addition, Martin has frequently spoken to meetings of pro-nazi groups like the Institute of Historical Review, suggesting that he shares their support for genocide of the Jews. +

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• (http://www.tonymartin.net.tt) Tony Martin's personal website • ([1]) Tony Martin's website at Wellesley College • ([2]) Marquis Who's Who • [3] Poisoning the web: African-American Anti-Semitism, Anti-Defamation League's website • ([4]) Opposing digits • ([5]) Truth Institute