Collection: The Negro World Newspapers, 1923-1925

Description: The Medgar Evers College, CUNY will be digitizing three annual sets of the The Negro World newspaper from 1923-1925. The Negro World, a weekly newspaper with worldwide circulation, was created by Marcus Garvey as the official organ of the U.N.I.A. and African Communities League. Each issue featured a front-page editorial by Garvey. Eminent black writers and editors who contributed to The Negro World during its heyday included Zora Neale Hurston, W. A. Domingo, Hubert Harrison, T. Thomas Fortune, Arthur Schomburg, John E. Bruce, William H. Ferris, Norton G. G. Thomas, and Eric Walrond. At its peak, the publication had a circulation of two hundred thousand and was the most popular black newspaper in the United States.