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Description of  Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918 1927

The St. Croixborn, Harlem-based Hubert Harrison (18831927) was a brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and activist who combined class consciousness and anti-white-supremacist race consciousness into a potent political radicalism. Harrisons ideas profoundly influenced New Negro militants, including A. Philip Randolph and Marcus Garvey, and his work is a key link in the two great strands of the Civil Rights/Black Liberation struggle: the labor- and civil-rights movement associated with Randolph and Martin Luther King Jr. and the race and nationalist movement associated with Garvey and Malcolm X. In this second volume of his acclaimed biography, Jeffrey B. Perry traces the final decade of Harrisons life, from 1918 to 1927. Perry details Harrisons literary and political activities, foregrounding his efforts against white supremacy and for racial consciousness and unity in struggles for equality and radical social change. The book explores Harrisons role in the militant New Negro Movement and the International Colored Unity League, as well as his prolific work as a writer, educator, and editor of the Read more