The Socialist Party USA invites you to join us on November 20th for a
discussion on the new book:
“Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism” w/ author Jeffrey Perry.

About Hubert Harrison: 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.

About the Author: Jeffrey B. Perry 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. He is also literary executor for
Theodore W. Allen and edited and introduced Allen's Class Struggle and the
Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race.

339 Lafayette St., New York, NY

Bookmark/Search this post with:

| | | | | | | | |