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1 online resource : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Intellectual growth and development -- Crucian roots (1883-1900) -- Self-education, early writings, and the Lyceums (1900-1907) -- In full-touch with the life of my people (1907-1909) -- Secular thought, radical critiques, and criticism of Book T. Washington (1905-1911) -- Socialist radical -- Hope in socialism (1911) -- Socialist writer and speaker (1912) -- Dissatisfaction with the party (1913-1914) -- Toward independence (1914-1915) -- The "New Negro Movement" -- Focus on Harlem: the birth of the "New Negro Movement" (1915-1917) -- Founding the Liberty League and The Voice (April-September 1917) -- Race-conscious activism and organizational difficulties (August-December 1917) -- The Liberty Congress and the Resurrection of The Voice (January-July 1918) -- Appendix: Harrison on his character. |
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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 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 and nati. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Harrison, Hubert H.
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Harrison, Hubert H. |
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Harrison, Hubert H. -- Political and social views.
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Political and social views. |
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African American intellectuals -- Biography.
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African American intellectuals. |
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Biographies.
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Radicalism -- United States -- History.
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Radicalism. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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African Americans -- Intellectual life.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life. |
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Harlem Renaissance.
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Harlem Renaissance. |
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Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life.
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National Book Committee. |
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Intellectual life. |
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918.
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Social conditions. |
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1865-1918 |
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United States -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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Print version: Perry, Jeffrey B. Hubert Harrison : The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008 9780231139113 |
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9780231511223 (electronic book) |
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0231511221 (electronic book) |
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9780231139106 (cloth alkaline paper) |
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0231139101 (cloth alkaline paper) |
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9780231139113 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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023113911X (paperback alkaline paper) |
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