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Negro World wasTemplate:When the newspaper of the Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA). Founded by Garvey and Amy Ashwood Garvey, the newspaper was published weekly in Harlem, and distributed internationally to the UNIA's chapters in more than forty countries.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Distributed weekly, at its peak, the Negro World reached a circulation of 200,000.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Notable editors included Marcus Garvey, T. Thomas Fortune,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> William H. Ferris,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> W.A. Domingo and Amy Jacques Garvey.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
BackgroundEdit
Garvey founded the UNIA in July 1914, and within the organization's first few years had started publishing Negro World.<ref name=racefirst>Template:Cite book</ref>
Monthly, Negro World distributed more copies than The Messenger, The Crisis and Opportunity (other important African-American publications). Colonial rulers banned its sales and even possession in their territories, including both British Empire and French colonial empire possessions.<ref name=racefirst/><ref name="Garvey1995">Template:Cite book</ref> Distribution in foreign countries was conducted through black seamen who would smuggle the paper into such areas.
Negro World ceased publication in 1933.
ContentEdit
For a nickel, readers received a front-page editorial by Garvey, along with poetry and articles of international interest to people of African ancestry. Under the editorship of Amy Jacques Garvey the paper featured a full page called "Our Women and What They Think".
Negro World also played an important part in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. The paper was a focal point for publication on the arts and African-American culture, including poetry,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> commentary on theatre and music, and regular book reviews. Romeo Lionel Dougherty, a prominent figure of the Jazz Age, began writing for Negro World in 1922.<ref>Tony Martin, Literary Garveyism: Garvey, Black Arts and the Harlem Renaissance, 1983.</ref>
ContributorsEdit
Notable editors and contributors to Negro World included:
- Duse Mohamed Ali
- John Edward Bruce
- Wilfred Adolphus Domingo
- William Henry Ferris
- Timothy Thomas Fortune
- William Henderson Franklin<ref name="PennIrvineGarland">Template:Cite book</ref>
- Amy Ashwood Garvey
- Amy Jacques Garvey
- Hubert Henry Harrison
- Samuel Alfred Haynes<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Zora Neale Hurston
- John G. Jackson
- Robert Lincoln Poston
- Andy Razaf
- Joel Augustus Rogers
- Arthur Schomburg
- William Alexander Stephenson
- Eric Walrond
- Carter Godwin Woodson