![]() At age 20, he had an early letter published by The New York Times in 1903. He was described as a "genius" in The World, a New York daily newspaper. While he was still in high school, his intellectual gifts were recognized. For the rest of his life, Harrison continued to study as an autodidact. In the beginning, Harrison worked low-paying service jobs while attending high school at night. In addition, the fact that in most places blacks and people of color far outnumbered whites meant they had more social spaces in which to operate away from the oversight of whites. They were a horror that had not existed in St. Harrison was especially "shocked" by the virulent white-supremacy typified by lynchings, which were reaching a peak in these years in the South. In the Caribbean, social relations were more fluid. He confronted a racial oppression unlike anything he previously knew, as only the United States had such a binary color line. Harrison came to New York in 1900 as a 17-year-old orphan and joined his older sister. purchase of the Virgin Islands, and subsequent abuses under the U.S. He was especially active in Virgin Island causes after the March 1917 U.S. Canegata, Anselmo Jackson, Rothschild Francis, Elizabeth Hendrikson, Casper Holstein, and Frank Rudolph Crosswaith. In later life Harrison worked with many Virgin Islands-born activists, including James C. Among his schoolmates was his lifelong friend, the future Crucian labor leader and social activist, D. ![]() As a youth, Harrison knew poverty but also learned of African customs and the Crucian people's rich history of direct action mass struggles. Harrison's 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". One account from the 1920s suggested that Harrison's father owned a substantial estate. His biological father, Adolphus Harrison, was born enslaved. Hubert was born to Cecilia Elizabeth Haines, a working-class woman, on Estate Concordia, St. Domingo, Williana Burroughs, and Cyril Briggs. Philip Randolph, Chandler Owen, Marcus Garvey, Richard Benjamin Moore, W. Harrison profoundly influenced a generation of "New Negro" militants, including A. He was also a self-described "radical internationalist" and contributed significantly to the Caribbean radical tradition. Harrison was a seminal and influential thinker who encouraged the development of class consciousness among working people, positive race consciousness among Black people, agnostic atheism, secular humanism, social progressivism, and freethought. From his Liberty League and Voice came the core leadership of individuals and race-conscious program of the Garvey movement. ![]() In 1917 he founded the Liberty League and The Voice, the first organization and the first newspaper of the race-conscious " New Negro" movement. In 1912–14, he was the leading Black organizer in the Socialist Party of America. Croix at the age of 17, Harrison played significant roles in the largest radical class and race movements in the United States. 1920)Ĭeclia Elizabeth Haines and Adolphus HarrisonĪn immigrant from St. ![]()
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