Listening to Pacifica’s Berkeley affiliate KPFA this week, I heard a surprising interview by labor reporter David Bacon with author Jeffery B. Perry on his new biography on Hubert Harrison. I downloaded the program and edited the interview to make it easy. Here is the mp3. This :26 minute audio sums up the importance of perhaps the foremost African American intellect of the period and what some call the father of Harlem radicalism. Perry says at the beginning of the interview;
He was a brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic and political activist…a key figure in much of 20th century black radicalism…a brilliant intellectual…
He is at the center of the birth and development of the socialist and communist movements in America…
