Negro World

Not to be confused with Negro World (Knoxville), the Tennessee newspaper.

Cover of Negro World, July 31, 1920

Negro World was[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.[1] Distributed weekly, at its peak, the Negro World reached a circulation of 200,000.[2]

Notable editors included Marcus Garvey, T. Thomas Fortune,[3] William H. Ferris,[4] W.A. Domingo and Amy Jacques Garvey.[5]

  1. ^ Blain, Keisha N. (2018). Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-4988-0.
  2. ^ West, Sandra (2003). "Negro World". In Aberjhani (ed.). Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4381-3017-0.
  3. ^ Finkelman, Paul, ed. (2009). "Negro World". Encyclopedia of African American History. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-516779-5.
  4. ^ Wintz, Cary D.; Finkelman, Paul (2004). Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance: K-Y. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-57958-458-0.
  5. ^ Taylor, Ula Yvette (October 16, 2003). The Veiled Garvey: The Life and Times of Amy Jacques Garvey. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-6229-2.