Editing Marcus Garvey (section)

====Assassination attempt, marriage, and divorce====

In October 1919, George Tyler, a part-time vendor of the ''Negro World'', entered the UNIA office and told Garvey that Kilroe "had sent him" and tried to assassinate Garvey. Garvey was shot at four times with a .38-calibre revolver, and received two bullets in his right leg and scalp but survived. Tyler was soon apprehended but committed suicide by leaping from the third-tier of the Harlem jail; it was never revealed why he tried to kill Garvey.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.harlemworldmagazine.com/marcus-garvey-in-his-harlem-office-1914/ | title=Marcus Garvey in His Harlem Office, 1914 – Harlem World Magazine | work=Harlem World Magazine | date=3 November 2013 | author1=Cass }}</ref>{{sfn|Grant|2008|pp=212–214}} Garvey soon recovered from his wounds; five days later he gave a public speech in [[Philadelphia]].{{sfn|Grant|2008|p=214}} After the assassination attempt, Garvey hired a bodyguard, Marcellus Strong.{{sfn|Grant|2008|p=218}}

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Shortly after the incident, Garvey proposed marriage to Amy Ashwood and she accepted.{{sfn|Grant|2008|p=224}} On [[Christmas Day]], they had a private [[Marriage in the Catholic Church|Catholic wedding]], followed by a major ceremonial celebration in Liberty Hall, attended by 3000 UNIA members.{{sfn|Grant|2008|p=225}} Jacques was Ashwood's [[maid of honor]].{{sfn|Grant|2008|p=224}} After the wedding, Garvey moved into Ashwood's apartment.{{sfn|Grant|2008|p=236}} The newlyweds embarked on a two-week honeymoon in Canada, accompanied by a small UNIA retinue, including Jacques. There, Garvey spoke at two mass meetings in [[Montreal]] and three in [[Toronto]].{{sfn|Grant|2008|p=226}} After their return to Harlem, the couple's marriage was soon strained. Ashwood complained of Garvey's growing closeness with Jacques.{{sfn|Grant|2008|p=236}} Garvey was upset by his inability to control his wife, particularly her drinking and her socializing with other men.{{sfn|Grant|2008|pp=236–238}} She was pregnant, although the child was possibly not his; she did not inform him of this, and the pregnancy ended in miscarriage.{{sfn|Grant|2008|p=238}}

Three months into the marriage, Garvey sought an annulment, on the basis of Ashwood's alleged adultery and the claim that she had used "fraud and concealment" to induce the marriage.{{sfn|Grant|2008|pp=238–239}} She launched a counter-claim for desertion, requesting $75-a-week alimony. The court rejected this sum, instead ordering Garvey to pay her $12 a week. It refused to grant him the divorce.{{sfn|Grant|2008|p=239}} The court proceedings continued for two years.{{sfn|Grant|2008|p=239}} Now separated, Garvey moved into a 129th Street apartment with Jacques and [[Henrietta Vinton Davis]], an arrangement that at the time could have caused some social controversy.{{sfn|Grant|2008|p=240}} He was later joined there by his sister Indiana and her husband, Alfred Peart.{{sfn|Grant|2008|p=278}} Ashwood, meanwhile, went on to become a lyricist and musical director for musicals amid the [[Harlem Renaissance]].{{sfn|Grant|2008|p=257}}