Grenada’s Independence

As One People: Grenada's Independence Story

First Raising of the Flag
First Raising of Grenada's Flag, Midnight on February 7, 1974

Path to Independence

Gairy Calls for Unity
In Gairy's independence speech to Grenada's Parliament that day, he called for peace with the opposition parties. But Maurice Bishop lay in a jail cell at the time, still grieving the murder of his father two weeks earlier. The labor strikes continued and Carnival 1974 was cancelled. It was only a matter of time before Gairy's hold on this new country would be broken completely.
1974 Independence Archives

Achievements Post Independence

Celebrations

Acknowlegements

Created by the GNM Curation team (Jonathan Hanna, Ophelia Sylvester, and Carlon Gittens). Many thanks to commentary from Isabelle Wadai, John Angus Martin, and Jody Daniel.

Further Reading

Benoit, Oliver
 2007      Resentment and the Gairy Social Revolution. Small Axe 11(1):95–111.

 2011      The Question of National Identity and the Institutionalisation of the Visual Arts in Grenada. Nations and Nationalism 17(3):561–580. DOI:10.1111/j.1469-8129.2011.00499.x.

Brizan, George I.
 1998      Grenada, Island of Conflict. 2nd ed. Macmillan, London.

Coard, Bernard
 2020      SKYRED: A Tale Of Two Revolutions. Independently published.

Franklyn, Omowale David
 1999      Bridging the Two Grenadas: Gairy’s and Bishop’s. Talented House Publications, St. George’s, Grenada.

Griffith, George
 2015      The Gairy Movement: A History of Grenada, 1947-1997. American Legacy Books.

Martin, John Angus
 2007      A-Z of Grenada Heritage. Macmillan Caribbean, Oxford.

Miller, Phil
 2015      The Secret Story of Grenada’s Independence. Race & Class 57(2):101–108. DOI:10.1177/0306396815595921.

Phillip, Nicole L.
 2010      Women in Grenadian History, 1783-1983. University of the West Indies Press, Jamaica.

Singham, A. W.
 1968      The Hero and the Crowd in a Colonial Polity. v.12. Yale University Press.

Steele, Beverley A
 2003      Grenada: A History of Its People. Macmillan Caribbean, Oxford.

Wilder, Ann Elizabeth
 2016a   Way to Nationhood 1973-1974: November Thru February. Vol. v.4. Grenada Chronicles. Grenada National Museum Press, St. George’s, Grenada.

 2016b   Becoming Revolutionary. Vol. v.1. Grenada Chronicles. Grenada National Museum Press, St George’s, Grenada.

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