Mariamne samad biography of william

"Mariamne Samad, a black American now living in Jamaica.

She would teach the virtues of African culture with clothes, their meaning and history through her Soncure Nubian Cultural Models and Workshop. Her short-term memory is just as intact.

Mariamne Samad, formerly Muriel Allman, was born in Harlem Hospital in 1922 to Alice Allman, née Brooks, and George Allman, a gold miner from Guyana.

She didn't want "all that foreign stuff". As she put it, "Most of my peers went into factory work, but I went into marriage." Some cynics may not see the difference as clearly as Muriel did.

'ALL THAT FOREIGN STUFF'

Three months after their marriage, Muriel discovered that Clarence was a Muslim. As she remembers it, Herod's son by his first wife, Doris, accused his stepmother of adultery.

Yesterday, she celebrated her 90th birthday. Clarence wanted them to change their names, but Muriel refused.

Leroy Davis, (B.A., Howard University, 1976; M.A., 1978; Ph.D., Kent State University, 1990); 20th Century African American and American history, 20th Century African Diaspora.

I am especially interested in cross-cultural experiences of African descendant peoples throughout the African Diaspora, which is the focus of my current research project tentatively entitled “Without Apology: The Life of Mariamne Samad, 20th Century Black Nationalist in Harlem and Jamaica.” The work is a working-class life history or biography of Harlem-born Mariamne Samad, a 90 year-old black cultural nationalist whose parents were followers of Marcus Garvey. Samad’s life experiences include family connections in Sierra Leone in West Africa, Georgetown, Guyana (her father’s birthplace) in South America, and Kingston, Jamaica (where she still resides) in the Caribbean.

I am especially interested in immigrant and emigrant identities as they adjust to realities in different geographical spaces with both similar and different definitions of race. I am also interested in how issues of class, gender, complexion and religion (she is Muslim) also complicate interactions between nationals and expatriates in different black transnational societies.

Recent African American Studies courses include the following: African American History to and from 1865; Garvey and Garveyism; Black Transnational Leadership; 20th Century Black Nationalism; Transnational Black Experience on Film; Black Power in Africa and the African Diaspora.

Books include co-editor, African Experience in Community Development: The Continuing Struggle in Africa and the Americas, Vols.

Last Thursday, we had a very long chat as she related some of the high points of her life. In fact, she was quite feisty.

She once teasingly accused him of being a 'predator' for snatching her from the proverbial cradle.

It was a near-death experience that forced Muriel to agree that the whole family should adopt Muslim names. Herod married Mariamne, the niece of his rival Antigonus, "in an attempt to secure a claim to the throne".

But she didn't like the Mary bit and chose Mariamne instead. In fact, she's credited for introducing the dashiki as an African-American fashion statement. She is alleged to have said, "I don't mind Clarence marrying an American. Her parents met while listening to Marcus Garvey speaking on a street corner in Harlem. Much earlier, in the 1970s, she was similarly honoured in Ghana.

Regretfully, Sister Mariamne Samad has long outlived her husband.

Naturally, Mariamne was not amused. Muriel's parents became ardent Garveyites and raised their daughter in keeping with Garvey's philosophy and practice of self-reliance.

Muriel met her husband-to-be, Clarence Thomas, when she was only 14 years of age. As a child, she'd read a book of Bible stories which told the tale of Mariamne, the second wife of King Herod.

She was put to death all the same.

Wikipedia gives a much more elaborate version of the story in which men fighting for power used women as pawns. White men in the subway would get up and offer them their seats.