The Garvey Movement
In January 1920 Harrison became principal editor of the Negro World, the newspaper of Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Over the next eight months, he developed it into the leading race-conscious, radical and literary publication of the day. By the August 1920 UNIA convention, Harrison had grown increasingly critical of Garvey. He did contribute to the UNIA’s 1920 “Declaration of the Negro Peoples of the World ".
Harrison criticized Garvey for exaggerations, financial schemes, and desire for empire. In contrast to Garvey, Harrison emphasized that African Americans' principal struggle was in the United States, not in Africa. Though Harrison continued to write for the Negro World into 1922, he looked to develop political alternatives to Garvey.
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