Hubert Harrison
Hubert Henry Harrison was a West IndianAmerican writer, orator, educator, critic, and radical socialist, and SingleTax political activist 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 AfroAmerican intellect of his time. John G. Jackson of American Atheists described him as The Black Socrates.
Hubert was born to Cecilia Elizabeth Haines, a workingclass woman, on Estate Concordia, St. Croix, Danish West Indies. Harrisons biological father, Adolphus Harrison, was born enslaved. One account from the 1920s suggested that Harrisons father owned a substantial estate. Harrisons biographer, however, found no such landholding and writes that there is no indication that Adolphus, a laborer his entire life, ever owned, or even rented, land. As a youth, Harrison knew poverty but also learned of African customs and the Crucian peoples rich history of direct action mass struggles. Among his schoolmates was his lifelong friend, the future Crucian labor leader and social activist, D. Hamilton Jackson.
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