The Life of Hubert Harrison

 

 

 

 

Sunday, February 16th - 3-5 PM

Jeffrey B. Perry returns to discuss the life of Hubert Harrison (1883-1927). 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. The St. Croix, Virgin Islands-born and Harlem-based Harrison 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 work associated with Malcolm X.

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Slide Presentation/Talks on “Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918” by Jeffrey B. Perry will be offered in Roxbury, Boston, and Cambridge Mass., February 15 and 16, 2014, as follows:

February 15, 2014, Saturday, 2-4:30 PM, Dudley Branch Library, 65 Warren Street, Roxbury, MA.

February 16, 2014, Sunday, 11 AM, Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St., Boston, MA 02116.

February 16, 2014, Sunday, 5 PM, Center for Marxist Education, 550 Massachusetts Ave (Central Square), Cambridge, MA, 02116.

For additional information on “Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918” see http://www.jeffreybperry.net/disc.htm

For additional information on these events see http://www.jeffreybperry.net/blog.htm?post=945394