After her husband’s death in 1940, she continued to fight for African independence and became a contributing editor to the "African", a black nationalist (nationalist - strongly identifying with their own nation) journal. She also started the African Study Circle of the World in Jamaica in the 1940s and published the book "Garvey and Garveyism" in 1963. Amy Jacques Garvey died on July 25, 1973 in Kingston, Jamaica, the same place where she was born.