Hubert Harrison was an immensely skilled writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist who, more than any other political leader of his era, combined class consciousness and anti-white-supremacist race consciousness into a coherent political radicalism. Harrison's ideas profoundly influenced "New Negro" militants, including A. Philip Randolph and Marcus Garvey, and his synthesis of class and race issues is a key unifying link between the two great trends of the Black Liberation Movement: the labor- and civil-rights-based work of Martin Luther King Jr. and the race and nationalist platform associated with Malcolm X.
The foremost Black organizer, agitator, and theoretician of the Socialist Party of New York, Harrison was also the founder of the "New Negro" movement, the editor of Negro World, and the principal radical influence on the Garvey movement. He was a highly praised journalist and critic (reportedly the first regular Black book reviewer), a freethinker and early proponent of birth control, a supporter of Black writers and artists, a leading public intellectual, and a bibliophile who helped transform the 135th Street Public Library into an international center for research in Black culture. His biography offers profound insights on race, class, religion, immigration, war, democracy, and social change in America.-Amazon.ca
Author(s): Jeffrey B Perry
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 609
Tags: African American, Black American, Radicalism, Harlem, Black History,Hubert Harrison,
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
A Note on Usage
Introduction
Part I Intellectual Growth and Development
1 Crucian Roots (1883–1900)
2 Self-Education, Early Writings, and the Lyceums (1900–1907)
3 In Full-Touch with the Life of My People (1907–1909)
4 Secular Thought, Radical Critiques, and Criticism of Booker T. Washington
(1905–1911)
Part II Socialist Radical
5 Hope in Socialism (1911)
6 Socialist Writer and Speaker (1912)
7 Dissatisfaction with the Party (1913–1914)
8 Toward Independence (1914–1915)
Part III The “New Negro Movement”
9 Focus on Harlem: The Birth of the “New Negro Movement” (1915–1917)
10 Founding the Liberty League and The Voice (April–September 1917)
11 Race-Conscious Activism and Organizational Difficulties (August–
December 1917)
12 The Liberty Congress and the Resurrection of The Voice (January–July
1918)
Appendix: Harrison on His Character
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Illustrations
Frontispiece Hubert Harrison, 1918
Figure 0.1 Hubert Harrison’s unmarked gravesite
Figure 0.2 J. A. Rogers, Ethiopia, 1935
Figure 1.1 “Buddhoe,” from a woodcut rendering by Charles E. Taylor, c.
1888
Figure 1.2 “Queen Mary” Thomas, undated, sketch by Charles E. Taylor
Figure 1.3 The Fireburn, 1878
Figure 1.4 Baptism Record of Hubert Harrison
Figure 1.5 Paradise and Concordia Estates in St. Croix, 1869
Figure 1.6 Manager’s House, Concordia, 1869
Figure 1.7 Manager’s House, Concordia, 1869
Figure 1.8 Concordia Village, 1869
Figure 1.9 David Hamilton Jackson, undated
Figure 1.10 View of Christiansted, c. 1850
Figure 2.1 Hubert Harrison, February, 1921
Figure 2.2 Interior court of an early-twentieth-century apartment house in the
West Sixty-second St. area, March 25, 1990
Figure 2.3 The lynching of four unidentified African Americans, c. 1900
Figure 2.4 John E. Bruce, c. 1911
Figure 2.5 Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, c. 1904
Figure 2.6 John Dotha Jones, c. 1924–1925
Figure 2.7 George Young, c. 1927
Figure 3.1 231 W. 134th St., New York, March 25, 1990
Figure 3.2 Charles Burroughs, undated
Figure 3.3 Williana Jones Burroughs, undated
Figure 3.4 The White Rose Home Ladies, c. 1909
Figure 3.5 Frances Reynolds Keyser, undated
Figure 3.6 Irene Louise Horton Harrison, c. 1909
Figure 3.7 Frances Marion Harrison, 1910
Figure 4.1 Edwin C. Walker, undated
Figure 4.2 James F. Morton, c. 1925
Figure 4.3 Booker T. Washington and his private secretary Emmett Scott, c.
1906
Figure 5.1 Eugene V. Debs, speaking in New York, 1912
Figure 5.2 George Frazier Miller, c. 1907
Figure 6.1 First Page of International Socialist Review article by Hubert
Harrison, May 1912
Figure 6.2 First Page of International Socialist Review article by Hubert
Harrison, July 1912
Figure 7.1 Hubert Harrison, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and William D. “Big Bill”
Haywood, c. 1913
Figure 8.1 Hubert Harrison, 1914
Figure 8.2 Francisco Ferrer, undated
Figure 8.3 Leonard Abbott, c. 1905
Figure 9.1 Charles Gilpin, c. 1920–1930
Figure 9.2 A. Philip Randolph, c. 1918
Figure 9.3 Chandler Owen, c. 1918
Figure 9.4 Richard B. Moore, 1919
Figure 9.5 Melville Charlton, undated
Figure 10.1 “Stop Lynching and Disfranchisement in the Land Which We Love
and Make the South ‘Safe For Democracy,’” handout, c. June 12,
1917
Figure 10.2 Tricolor flag of the Liberty League
Figure 10.3 Marcus Garvey, Christmas, 1919
Figure 10.4 East St. Louis Race Riot, July 2, 1917
Figure 11.1 W. A. Domingo, undated
Figure 11.2 Andrea Razaf[in]keriefo, undated
Figure 12.1 Joel Elias Spingarn, 1918
Figure 12.2 William Monroe Trotter, 1907
Figure 12.3 Hubert Harrison and delegates at the Liberty Congress, 1918
Figure 12.4 W. E. B. Du Bois, 1918
