Jessica Huntley

Jessica Huntley (23 February 1927 – 13 October 2013) came to Britain from Guyana in 1958, to join her husband Eric. She was a leading member of the Peoples Progressive Party in the vanguard struggle for National Independence. In 1969, along with others, and with the help of donations from friends, she and her husband founded the groundbreaking publishing house Bogle-L'Ouverture Limited, and later opened a bookshop under the same name. Their first publication was The Groundings with My Brothers, a book of essays by activist, academic and friend Walter Rodney. Walter was banned from Jamaica for daring to combine his professional career with activism by teaching across all sections of the Jamaican society.