Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism is an intellectual biography of the working-class journalist, activist, and educator Hubert Henry Harrison (1883-1927), who generated an array of visionary solutions to the systemic injustices of his day. After blazing a trail for people of color in the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Harrison emerged as one of the most prominent freethinkers and free lovers of his generation. He practiced armed self-defense and called for an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist “Colored International” alliance in the face of European colonialism in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Most spectacularly, Harrison’s Liberty League of Negro Americans catalysed the rise of Marcus Garvey and the largest international organisation of African people in modern history.
Dr Brian Kwoba is Associate Professor of History and Director of African and African American Studies (AAAS) at the University of Memphis.
Special thanks to:
African School
Afrikan/ Afrikan-Caribbean Kultural Heritage Initiative
Oxfordshire Community Education Group
Unlock the Chains Collective
Oxford Community Action
