Tony Martin (professor), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Trinidad-born professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College
Date of Birth: 21-Feb-1942
Place of Birth: Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Date of Death: 17-Jan-2013
Profession: historian, university teacher
Nationality: United States, Trinidad and Tobago
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Tony Martin (professor)
- Tony Martin (February 21, 1942 – January 17, 2013) was a Trinidad-born scholar of Africana Studies.
- From 1973 to 2007 he worked at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts and over the course of his career published over ten books and a range of scholarly articles. Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Martin moved to the United Kingdom, where he studied law at Gray's Inn, London, and then economics at the University of Hull.
- Relocating to the U.S., he completed a PhD on the Jamaican political activist Marcus Garvey at Michigan State University in 1973.
- That year, he was employed as an associate professor at Wellesley College, where he was a founding member of its Africana Studies Department.
- During the latter part of the 1970s and 1980s he published several books on Garvey and Garveyism.
- In 1987 he sued his employer for racial discrimination and in 1991 was accused of harassing female students, although denied the allegation.
- Among the subjects that Martin pursued was the place of Jews in the Atlantic slave trade.
- During the 1990s, he came under public criticism for encouraging his students to read The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, a book compiled by the Nation of Islam that was widely regarded as antisemitic.
- That decade, he also entered into a publicised argument with Classics scholar Mary Lefkowitz, a prominent critic of historical claims made by Afrocentric scholarship.
- Martin subsequently took Lefkowitz to court for libel, but the case was dismissed.
- In 1993 he self-published The Jewish Onslaught, a book that Wellesley distanced themselves from and which generated further accusations of antisemitism.
- In 2002 he spoke at a conference organized by a leading Holocaust denial organization, the Institute for Historical Review, alleging that Jewish organizations were trying to stifle free speech.
- In 2007 he retired from Wellesley.
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