A Hubert Harrison Reader
The brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and activist Hubert Harrison (1883 - 1927) is one of the truly important, yet neglected, figures of early twentieth-century America. Known as "the father of Harlem radicalism,' and a leading Socialist party speaker who advocated that socialists champion the cause of the Negro as a revolutionary doctrine, Harrison had an important influence on a generation of race and class radicals, including Marcus Garvey and A. Philip Randolph.\ Harrison...
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Critical writings by the "father of Harlem radicalism".
AcknowledgmentsBrief Chronology of the Life of Hubert HarrisonAbbreviations UsedA Note on UsageIntroduction11A Developing Worldview and Beginning Social Activism1A Negro on Chicken Stealing312Pledge to the Mother Race from an Untamed African333Plan to Write a "History of the Negro in America"334Letter to Mrs. Frances Reynolds Keyser365Plane's Place in the Deistical Movement406The Negro a Conservative427The Negro and the Newspapers462Class Radicalism8The Negro and Socialism: I - The Negro Problem Stated529Race Prejudice - II5510The Duty of the Socialist Party5711How to Do It - And How Not6012The Black Man's Burden [I]6213The Black Man's Burden [II]6714Socialism and the Negro7115Southern Socialists and the Ku Klux Klan7616The Negro and the Labor Unions7917The Negro in Industry, review of The Great Steel Strike and Its Lessons813Race Radicalism18The Liberty League of Negro-Americans: How It Came to Be8619Resolutions [Passed at the Liberty League Meeting]8820Declaration of Principles [of the Liberty League]8921The Liberty League's Petition to the House of Representatives of the United States, July 4, 19179222The East St. Louis Horror9423Houston vs. Waco9524As the Currents Flow9725Our Larger Duty9926The Need for It [and The Nature of It]10127Two Negro Radicalisms10228The Women of Our Race10529In the Melting Pot (re Herodotus)10630Race First versus Class First10731Just Crabs10932Patronize Your Own11133An Open Letter to the Socialist Party of New York City11334Race Consciousness1164Education35Negro Culture and the Negro College12036Education and the Race12237English as She Is Spoke12438Education out of School12539Read! Read! Read!1265Politics40Lincoln and Liberty: Fact versus Fiction; Chapter Two13041Lincoln and Liberty: Fact versus Fiction; Chapter Three13342The Drift in Politics13743The New Policies for the New Negro13944The Coming Election14045Our Professional "Friends"14346A Negro for President14747U-Need-a Biscuit14948The Grand Old Party15149When the Tail Wags the Dog15450Our Political Power15551The Black Tide Turns in Politics1576Leaders and Leadership52Insistence upon Its Real Grievances the Only Courses for the Race16453The Liberty Congress16854The Descent of Dr. Du Bois17055When the Blind Lead17356To the Young Men of My Race17557Shillady Resigns17758A Tender Point17859Our White Friends18060Connections with the Garvey Movement18261On Garvey's Character and Abilities18862The UNIA Convention19163Convention Bill of Rights and Elections19264Marcus Garvey at the Bar of United States Justice19465The Negro-American Speaks1997Anti-imperialism and Internationalism66The White War and the Colored World20267The White War and the Colored Races20368The Negro at the Peace Congress20969Africa at the Peace Table21070Britain in India21371When Might Makes Right21572The Line-Up on the Color Line21673On "Civilizing" Africa21974Imperialist America, review of The American Empire22175Wanted - A Colored International22376The Washington Conference22977Disarmament and the Darker Races23178Help Wanted for Hayti23479The Cracker in the Caribbean23680Hands across the Sea23881A St. Croix Creole, letter to the Evening Post24082The Virgin Islands: A Colonial Problem24183Prejudice Growing Less And Co-Operation More25084Hubert Harrison Answers Malliet2538Meditations85Goodwill toward Men25786Meditation: "Heroes and Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in Human History"25887The Meditations of Mustapha: A Soul in Search of Itself26088On Praise2639Lynching, the Klan, "Race Relations," and "Democracy" in America89A Cure for the Ku-Klux26690Ku Klux Klan in the Past26791How to End Lynching27092The Negro and the Census27293Bridging the Gulf of Color27394At the Back of the Black Man's Mind27795"Democracy" in America28296The Negro and the Nation28610Literary Criticism, Book Reviews, and Book Reviewing97Views of Readers on Criticism: Mr. H. H. Harrison Reiterates His Theories29298On a Certain Condescension in White Publishers [Part I]29399On a Certain Condescension in White Publishers (Concluded) [Part II]295100Review of Terms of Peace and the Darker Races297101The Negro in History and Civilization, review of From Superman to Man299102White People versus Negroes: Being the Story of a Great Book From Superman to Man301103Review of The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy305104The Rising Tide of Color309105The Brown Ban Leads the Way, Part I, review of The New World of Islam310106The Brown Man Leads the Way, review of The New World of Islam315107Review of Darkwater319108Review of The Negro Year Book, 1918-1919322109The Superscientist, review of The Place of Science in Modern Civilization and Other Essays323110The Black Man's Burden, review of The Black Man's Burden326111The Caucasian Canker in South Africa, review of The Real South Africa330112M. Maran's Batouala334113The Southern Black - As Seen by the Eye of Fiction, review of Highly Colored336114The Real Negro Humor337115Negro Church History: A Book of It Badly Marred by Neglect of the Race Foundation, review of The History of the Negro Church339116Negro's Part in History, review of The Negro in Our History340117Homo Africanus Harlemi, review of Nigger Heaven341118Nigger Heaven - A Review of the Reviewers344119No Negro Literary Renaissance351120Cabaret School of Negro Literature and Art355121Harlem's Neglected Opportunities357122Review of The Story of Mankind362123Satyricon of Petronius, letter to the New York Times364124On Reading Negro Books365125Hayti Finds a Friend: Black Hayti: A Biography of Africa's Eldest Daughter36611Theater Reviews126Negro Society and the Negro Stage, Preamble370127Negro Society and the Negro Stage, Part 2373128Canary Cottage: A Dramatic Opinion377129The Emperor Jones378130The Negro Actor on Broadway: A Critical Interpretation by a Negro Critic38312Poets and Poetry131The Black Man's Burden (A Reply to Rudyard Kipling)389132Another Negro Poet391133Poetry of Claude McKay392134Black Bards of Yesterday and Today, review of The Book of American Negro Poetry39413The International Colored Unity League and the Way Forward135Program and Principles of the International Colored Unity League399136The Right Way to Unity402137The Common People404138The Roots of Power405Biographical Sources on Harrison407Notes411Index of Titles453General Index457
