George Padmore
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George Padmore
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| Born |
Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse 28 June 1903 Arouca, Trinidad |
| Died | 23 September 1959 (aged 56) London, England |
| Nationality | Trinidadian |
| Occupation | Journalist, author, pan-Africanist |
George Padmore (28 June 1903 – 23 September 1959), born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse in Trinidad, was a leading Pan-Africanist, journalist, and author. He left Trinidad in 1924 to study medicine in the United States, where he also joined the Communist Party.
From there he moved to the Soviet Union, where he was active in the party, and working on African independence movements. He also worked for the party in Germany but left after the rise of the Nazis in the 1930s. He left the Communist Party in 1934 because of the abuses and widespread purges under Stalinism. He continued to support socialism.
Padmore lived for a time in France, before settling in London. Toward the end of his life he moved to Accra, Ghana.
Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse, better known by his pseudonym George Padmore, was born on 28 June 1903 in Arouca District, Tacarigua,Trinidad, then part of the British West Indies. His paternal great-grandfather was an Asante warrior who was taken prisoner and sold into slavery at Barbados, where his grandfather was born. His father, James Hubert Alfonso Nurse, was a local schoolmaster who had married Anna Susanna Symister of Antigua, a naturalist.
Nurse attended Tranquillity School in Port of Spain, before going to St Mary's College for two years (1914 and 1915). He transferred to the Pamphylian High School, graduating from there in 1918. After that he worked for several years as a reporter with the Trinidad Publishing Company.
In 1924, he travelled to the United States to take up medical studies at Fisk University, a historically black college in Tennessee. He had married earlier that year and his wife Julia Semper would later join him in America. She left behind their daughter Blyden, who was born in 1925. According to Nurse's instruction, she was named in honour of the African nationalist Edward Blyden of Liberia. Nurse subsequently registered at New York University but soon transferred to Howard University.
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