Sherona Hall

[1] Hall grew up in Jamaica, and was affected at a young age by the instructing of civil rights activist Marcus Garvey.

[2] Hall was the youngest secretary of a People's National Party group and at age 15 was one of the establishing individuals for its youth association.

[4] In the mid 1970s, a period of political and social agitation, Hall travelled to Tanzania to participate in the Sixth Pan-African Congress.

[4] Once in the country, she expended her contacts to incorporate officials from the government of different African nations and manufactured her own political associations with freedom fighters and pioneers.

[2] From 2004 until her death, she worked with other defenders from the community of Malvern and St. James Town, trying to help take out the criminal records of black young men who had been accused of minor wrongdoings.