Join author and historian Dr. Jeffrey B. Perry, as he discusses his book Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918. The discussion will be immediately followed by a book signing in the Museum Store.

Dr. Jeffrey B. Perry is an independent scholar formally educated at Princeton, Harvard, Rutgers, and Columbia.

About the book
This first full-length biography of Harrison offers a portrait of a man ahead of his time and a leading influence on better known activists from Marcus Garvey to A. Philip Randolph. Harrison emigrated from St. Croix in 1883 and became the editor of the Negro World and founder and leader of the World War I -era New Negro movement. Harrison's enormous political and intellectual appetites were channeled into his work as an orator, writer, political activist, and critic. He was an avid bibliophile, reportedly the first regular black book reviewer, who helped to develop the public library in Harlem into an international center for research on black culture, now the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.