Marcus Garvey was a civil rights activist and a leader in the “ new negro world” essentially one of the influential people creating the harlem renaissance associated with unia (united negro improvement association). The unia and marcus helped the harlem renaissance grow in development as the movement grew strong in african american literature and music. “The new negro world”, was established in 1918 and was one of garvey and unia greatest achievements. “the new negro” was more a political movement telling people how they could express themselves passionately through a newspaper known by many world wide. Zora hurston was a journalist and a civil rights activist, she gave the harlem renaissance a female voice that was mostly dominated by men
