Writer, Speaker, Educator, Critic and Activist
Hubert Henry Harrison was born in the Danish West Indies, now known as the U.S. Virgin Islands in 1883. His elementary schooling completed in 1900, he immigrated to the United States and settled in Harlem, New York. While working various jobs, he attended night school and completed his high school program in 1907 at the top of his class. After obtaining a job as a postal clerk, he married Irene Louis Horton in 1909 and in the same year became a member of the New York Socialist Party. Harrison began writing letters to the New York Times on various topics and became a lecturer on subjects such as poetry and Reconstruction as well as a critic of Booker T. Washington's political philosophy.
A lifelong freethinker and autodidact, Harrison worked with the other intellectual of the Harlem Renaissance, Arthur Schomburg and was active as an activist with the Socialist Party of America lecturing against capitalism and campaigning for the candidacy of Eugene V. Debs. His writings and essays appeared in the New York Times, The Pittsburgh Courier, The Chicago Defender, The Amsterdam News, New York World, The Nation, The New York Tribune and The Boston Chronicle. He was also an editor and contributor to Marcus Garvey's "Negro World" and founded the International Colored Unity League in 1922.
Harrison died on December 17th, 1927 of appendicitis at Bellevue Hospital at the age of 44 and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Hubert Henry Harrison was born in the Danish West Indies, now known as the U.S. Virgin Islands in 1883. His elementary schooling completed in 1900, he immigrated to the United States and settled in Harlem, New York. While working various jobs, he attended night school and completed his high school program in 1907 at the top of his class. After obtaining a job as a postal clerk, he married Irene Louis Horton in 1909 and in the same year became a member of the New York Socialist Party. Harrison began writing letters to the New York Times on various topics and became a lecturer on subjects such as poetry and Reconstruction as well as a critic of Booker T. Washington's political philosophy.
A lifelong freethinker and autodidact, Harrison worked with the other intellectual of the Harlem Renaissance, Arthur Schomburg and was active as an activist with the Socialist Party of America lecturing against capitalism and campaigning for the candidacy of Eugene V. Debs. His writings and essays appeared in the New York Times, The Pittsburgh Courier, The Chicago Defender, The Amsterdam News, New York World, The Nation, The New York Tribune and The Boston Chronicle. He was also an editor and contributor to Marcus Garvey's "Negro World" and founded the International Colored Unity League in 1922.
Harrison died on December 17th, 1927 of appendicitis at Bellevue Hospital at the age of 44 and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Writer, Speaker, Educator, Critic and Activist
Hubert Henry Harrison was born in the Danish West Indies, now known as the U.S. Virgin Islands in 1883. His elementary schooling completed in 1900, he immigrated to the United States and settled in Harlem, New York. While working various jobs, he attended night school and completed his high school program in 1907 at the top of his class. After obtaining a job as a postal clerk, he married Irene Louis Horton in 1909 and in the same year became a member of the New York Socialist Party. Harrison began writing letters to the New York Times on various topics and became a lecturer on subjects such as poetry and Reconstruction as well as a critic of Booker T. Washington's political philosophy.
A lifelong freethinker and autodidact, Harrison worked with the other intellectual of the Harlem Renaissance, Arthur Schomburg and was active as an activist with the Socialist Party of America lecturing against capitalism and campaigning for the candidacy of Eugene V. Debs. His writings and essays appeared in the New York Times, The Pittsburgh Courier, The Chicago Defender, The Amsterdam News, New York World, The Nation, The New York Tribune and The Boston Chronicle. He was also an editor and contributor to Marcus Garvey's "Negro World" and founded the International Colored Unity League in 1922.
Harrison died on December 17th, 1927 of appendicitis at Bellevue Hospital at the age of 44 and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Hubert Henry Harrison was born in the Danish West Indies, now known as the U.S. Virgin Islands in 1883. His elementary schooling completed in 1900, he immigrated to the United States and settled in Harlem, New York. While working various jobs, he attended night school and completed his high school program in 1907 at the top of his class. After obtaining a job as a postal clerk, he married Irene Louis Horton in 1909 and in the same year became a member of the New York Socialist Party. Harrison began writing letters to the New York Times on various topics and became a lecturer on subjects such as poetry and Reconstruction as well as a critic of Booker T. Washington's political philosophy.
A lifelong freethinker and autodidact, Harrison worked with the other intellectual of the Harlem Renaissance, Arthur Schomburg and was active as an activist with the Socialist Party of America lecturing against capitalism and campaigning for the candidacy of Eugene V. Debs. His writings and essays appeared in the New York Times, The Pittsburgh Courier, The Chicago Defender, The Amsterdam News, New York World, The Nation, The New York Tribune and The Boston Chronicle. He was also an editor and contributor to Marcus Garvey's "Negro World" and founded the International Colored Unity League in 1922.
Harrison died on December 17th, 1927 of appendicitis at Bellevue Hospital at the age of 44 and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.
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