Hubert Harrison

Hubert Henry Harrison was born on the twenty-seventh of April 1883 at the village of Concordia, on the principal Danish West Indies island of St. Croix, the son of William Adolphus Harrison — a St. Croix Crucian sugar plantation worker — and Cecelia Elizabeth Haines Harrison. He was raised in the principal Concordia St. Croix Crucian community of the principal late-Danish-colonial St. Croix.

He completed his primary education at the principal Concordia parish school at St. Croix in 1899 — and emigrated to New York in 1900 at the principal post-1900 Caribbean-immigrant Harlem community founding-period.

He was employed across the principal 1900s at the principal New York-and-Brooklyn commercial-clerical-and-postal-and-Pullman commercial community — and was self-educated at the principal New York Public Library across the principal 1900s and 1910s.

He joined the principal Socialist Party of America at New York in 1909 — and was a principal Harlem-and-New-York Socialist Party orator from 1909 to 1914.

He was expelled from the principal Socialist Party of America in 1914 at the principal post-1914 Socialist-Party-of-America anti-Black-and-anti-Caribbean racism-and-political-conflict period — and was a principal Harlem street-corner orator from 1914 to 1927.

He founded the principal Liberty League of Negro Americans at Harlem in June 1917 — the principal first independent Harlem-Black-political-and-philosophical-and-socialist-and-anti-imperialist organisation of the principal post-1917 Harlem Renaissance founding-period.

He founded the principal The Voice newspaper at Harlem in July 1917 — the principal first Harlem-Black-political-and-socialist-and-anti-imperialist newspaper of the principal post-1917 Harlem Renaissance founding-period.

He was a principal post-1918 founding contributor to The Negro World newspaper of the Universal Negro Improvement Association under Marcus Garvey — and held the principal The Negro World senior-editor position from 1920 to 1922.

He published the principal The Negro and the Nation at the principal Cosmo-Advocate Press at New York in 1917 — and the principal When Africa Awakes at the principal Porro Press at New York in 1920.

He was a principal mentor of the principal post-1917 Harlem Renaissance founding-period Black-Socialist-and-Caribbean-and-anti-imperialist street-corner political-and-philosophical-and-intellectual community — including the principal Harlem Renaissance Black-political-and-philosophical-and-intellectual community of A. Philip Randolph, Chandler Owen, Cyril Briggs, and Richard B. Moore.

He died at New York on the seventeenth of December 1927 of complications of appendicitis surgery, at forty-four.

He is honored here as the founder of the Liberty League of Negro Americans.