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Meet author JEFFREY B. PERRY as he discusses and signs HUBERT HARRISON: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918.
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 M. 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 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 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.
Mr. Perry is is an independent scholar of the working class formally educated at Princeton, Harvard, Rutgers and Columbia University. Perry preserved and inventoried the Hubert H. Harrison papers (now at Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscript Library) and is the editor of A Hubert Harrison Reader.
Eso Won Bookstore is happy to announce that along with author Jeffrey Perry, Mr. Charles Richardson, the grandson of Hubert Harrison will be in attendance. Other folks that Eso Won Bookstore has hosted over the years that have been profoundly influenced by the mind of Hubert Harrison are John Henrik Clarke, Yosef A.A. ben-Jochannan (Dr Ben) and Kwame Ture( Stokely Carmichae)l. So, c'mon out and enjoy the evening and keep the information torch burning.
