Hubert Harrison, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Hubert Harrison

United States Virgin Islands writer

Date of Birth: 27-Apr-1883

Place of Birth: Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands, United States

Date of Death: 17-Dec-1927

Profession: writer, journalist, philosopher, activist, trade unionist, peace activist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Hubert Harrison

  • Hubert Henry Harrison (April 27, 1883 – December 17, 1927) was a West Indian-American writer, orator, educator, critic, and race and class conscious political activist and radical internationalist based in Harlem, New York.
  • He was described by activist A.
  • Philip Randolph as "the father of Harlem radicalism" and by the historian Joel Augustus Rogers as "the foremost Afro-American intellect of his time." John G.
  • Jackson of American Atheists described him as "The Black Socrates".An immigrant from St.
  • Croix at the age of 17, Harrison played significant roles in the largest radical class and race movements in the United States.
  • In 1912-14 he was the leading Black organizer in the Socialist Party of America.
  • In 1917 he founded the Liberty League and The Voice, the first organization and the first newspaper of the race-conscious "New Negro" movement.
  • From his Liberty League and Voice came the core leadership of individuals and race-conscious program of the Garvey movement.Harrison was a seminal and influential thinker who encouraged the development of class consciousness among working people, positive race consciousness among Black people, agnostic atheism, secular humanism, social progressivism, and freethought.
  • He was also a self-described "radical internationalist" and contributed significantly to the Caribbean radical tradition.
  • Harrison profoundly influenced a generation of "New Negro" militants, including A.
  • Philip Randolph, Chandler Owen, Marcus Garvey, Richard Benjamin Moore, W.
  • A.
  • Domingo, Williana Burroughs, and Cyril Briggs.

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