Halrem:Mecca of the new negro

during the Harlem Renaissance, but the most famous writers of this new wave of literature were: Marcus Garvey, James Weldon Johnson, Alain Locke, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Countee Cullen. These writers desired to bring about awareness in their readers regarding the issues concerning black culture. Just as the black population of the time had no
             definite solution to their problem, the writers of the time varied in opinion as how to go about and obtain the freedom from segregation.
             One radical literary writer and civil rights activist was Marcus Garvey. Garvey was very head strong and boisterous about his solutions and ideals because of his social and political viewpoints. As the founder of the UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association) Garvey's one dream was for a great Negro Empire in Africa, which would be completely colonized by Negroes. The UNIA believe in the social, political, and physical separation of all peoples to the extent that they prom
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