Una Marson

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

UNA MAUD MARSON (1905-1965) 

 

Black feminist, social activist, nationalist, literary pioneer, journalist, poet, playwright, broadcaster, born in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica.

Established first women’s publication in Jamaica – The Cosmopolitan
First major female poet of the Caribbean

“First Black woman programme maker at the BBC”

Was the only Black woman at the ‘East-West Corporation’ in
Turkey, 1938. 

 

There will come a time when…men will look into each other’s hearts and souls and not upon their skin and brain and difference in the customs of the race…excerpt from “There Will Come a Time” in Una Marson’s collection at National Library of Jamaica.

 

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