Hubert Harrison : the struggle for equality, 1918-1927 / Jeffrey B. Perry.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I : "New Negro Movement" Editor and Activist. Return to Harlem and resurrection of The Voice (July-December 1918) -- Political activities in Washington and Virginia (January- July 1919) -- New Negro editor and agitator (July-December 1919) -- Part II : Editor of the Negro World. Reshaping the Negro World and comments on Garvey (December 1919-May 1920) -- Debate with The Emancipator (March-April 1920) -- Early Negro World writings (January-July 1920) -- 1920 UNIA Convention and influence on Garvey (August-November 1920) -- Post-convention meditations, writings, and reviews (September-December 1920) -- Early 1921 Negro World writings and reviews (January-April 1921) -- Liberty League, Tulsa, and mid-1921 writings (May-September 1921) -- Negro World writings and reviews (September 1921-April 1922) -- Period of Garvey's arrest (October 1921-March 1922) -- Part III : "Free-lance Educator". Lecturer, book reviewer, and citizenship (March 1922-June 1923) -- KKK, Garvey's conviction, speaking, Virgin Islands, and reviews (1923) -- Boston Chronicle, Board of Ed, and the New Negro (January-June 1924) -- Part IV : The Struggle for International Colored Unity. ICUL, Midwest tour, Board of Ed, NYPL, and 1925 (March 1924-December 1925) -- NYC talks, Workers School, and Modern Quarterly (January-September 1926) -- Lafayette Theatre Strike, Nigger Heaven, and Garvey divorce (June-December 1926) -- The Pittsburgh Courier and the Voice of the Negro (January-April 1927) -- Last months and death (May-December 1927).

"The St. Croix-born, Harlem-based Hubert Harrison (1883-1927) was a brilliant, class and race conscious writer, orator, editor, educator, book reviewer, political activist, and radical internationalist. Considered the most class conscious of the race radicals and the most race conscious of the class radicals of his era he was described by J.A. Rogers as "perhaps the foremost Aframerican intellect of his time" and by A. Philip Randolph and others as "the father of Harlem radicalism." In this second volume biography covering 1918 to 1927, Jeffrey Perry follows Harrison as he resurrects The Voice, the first newspaper of the "New Negro Movement" (1918); edits The New Negro monthly "intended as an organ of the international consciousness of the darker races-especially of the Negro race" (1919); serves as principal editor of Marcus Garvey's Negro World reshaping and developing that paper into the preeminent radical, race conscious, political and literary publication of that time (1920); publishes When Africa Awakes: The 'Inside Story' of the Stirrings and Strivings of the New Negro in the Western World (1920); and makes clear his pioneering role as the founder and driving force of the "New Negro Movement" (years before Alain Locke's 1925 publication of the New Negro). Working from his race conscious radical internationalist perspective, he is a prolific writer of articles, editorials, theatre and book reviews for a wide range of publications, he lectures widely, and he interacts with, and often openly criticizes, prominent individuals (like Du Bois and Marcus Garvey) and organizations as he struggles for democracy and equality in America."-- Provided by publisher.

Jeffrey B. Perry is an independent scholar and archivist. He is the author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 (Columbia, 2008) and the editor of A Hubert Harrison Reader (2001), and he preserved and placed Harrison's papers. He is also the literary executor for Theodore W. Allen, preserved and placed his papers, and edited and introduced the expanded 2012 edition of Allen's two-volume The Invention of the White Race.

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