A Hubert Harrison Reader Book

	Acknowledgments
	Brief Chronology of the Life of Hubert Harrison
	Abbreviations Used
	A Note on Usage
	Introduction	1
1	A Developing Worldview and Beginning Social Activism
1	A Negro on Chicken Stealing	31
2	Pledge to the Mother Race from an Untamed African	33
3	Plan to Write a "History of the Negro in America"	33
4	Letter to Mrs. Frances Reynolds Keyser	36
5	Plane's Place in the Deistical Movement	40
6	The Negro a Conservative	42
7	The Negro and the Newspapers	46
2	Class Radicalism
8	The Negro and Socialism: I - The Negro Problem Stated	52
9	Race Prejudice - II	55
10	The Duty of the Socialist Party	57
11	How to Do It - And How Not	60
12	The Black Man's Burden [I]	62
13	The Black Man's Burden [II]	67
14	Socialism and the Negro	71
15	Southern Socialists and the Ku Klux Klan	76
16	The Negro and the Labor Unions	79
17	The Negro in Industry, review of The Great Steel Strike and Its Lessons	81
3	Race Radicalism
18	The Liberty League of Negro-Americans: How It Came to Be	86
19	Resolutions [Passed at the Liberty League Meeting]	88
20	Declaration of Principles [of the Liberty League]	89
21	The Liberty League's Petition to the House of Representatives of the United States, July 4, 1917	92
22	The East St. Louis Horror	94
23	Houston vs. Waco	95
24	As the Currents Flow	97
25	Our Larger Duty	99
26	The Need for It [and The Nature of It]	101
27	Two Negro Radicalisms	102
28	The Women of Our Race	105
29	In the Melting Pot (re Herodotus)	106
30	Race First versus Class First	107
31	Just Crabs	109
32	Patronize Your Own	111
33	An Open Letter to the Socialist Party of New York City	113
34	Race Consciousness	116
4	Education
35	Negro Culture and the Negro College	120
36	Education and the Race	122
37	English as She Is Spoke	124
38	Education out of School	125
39	Read! Read! Read!	126
5	Politics
40	Lincoln and Liberty: Fact versus Fiction; Chapter Two	130
41	Lincoln and Liberty: Fact versus Fiction; Chapter Three	133
42	The Drift in Politics	137
43	The New Policies for the New Negro	139
44	The Coming Election	140
45	Our Professional "Friends"	143
46	A Negro for President	147
47	U-Need-a Biscuit	149
48	The Grand Old Party	151
49	When the Tail Wags the Dog	154
50	Our Political Power	155
51	The Black Tide Turns in Politics	157
6	Leaders and Leadership
52	Insistence upon Its Real Grievances the Only Courses for the Race	164
53	The Liberty Congress	168
54	The Descent of Dr. Du Bois	170
55	When the Blind Lead	173
56	To the Young Men of My Race	175
57	Shillady Resigns	177
58	A Tender Point	178
59	Our White Friends	180
60	Connections with the Garvey Movement	182
61	On Garvey's Character and Abilities	188
62	The UNIA Convention	191
63	Convention Bill of Rights and Elections	192
64	Marcus Garvey at the Bar of United States Justice	194
65	The Negro-American Speaks	199
7	Anti-imperialism and Internationalism
66	The White War and the Colored World	202
67	The White War and the Colored Races	203
68	The Negro at the Peace Congress	209
69	Africa at the Peace Table	210
70	Britain in India	213
71	When Might Makes Right	215
72	The Line-Up on the Color Line	216
73	On "Civilizing" Africa	219
74	Imperialist America, review of The American Empire	221
75	Wanted - A Colored International	223
76	The Washington Conference	229
77	Disarmament and the Darker Races	231
78	Help Wanted for Hayti	234
79	The Cracker in the Caribbean	236
80	Hands across the Sea	238
81	A St. Croix Creole, letter to the Evening Post	240
82	The Virgin Islands: A Colonial Problem	241
83	Prejudice Growing Less And Co-Operation More	250
84	Hubert Harrison Answers Malliet	253
8	Meditations
85	Goodwill toward Men	257
86	Meditation: "Heroes and Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in Human History"	258
87	The Meditations of Mustapha: A Soul in Search of Itself	260
88	On Praise	263
9	Lynching, the Klan, "Race Relations," and "Democracy" in America
89	A Cure for the Ku-Klux	266
90	Ku Klux Klan in the Past	267
91	How to End Lynching	270
92	The Negro and the Census	272
93	Bridging the Gulf of Color	273
94	At the Back of the Black Man's Mind	277
95	"Democracy" in America	282
96	The Negro and the Nation	286
10	Literary Criticism, Book Reviews, and Book Reviewing
97	Views of Readers on Criticism: Mr. H. H. Harrison Reiterates His Theories	292
98	On a Certain Condescension in White Publishers [Part I]	293
99	On a Certain Condescension in White Publishers (Concluded) [Part II]	295
100	Review of Terms of Peace and the Darker Races	297
101	The Negro in History and Civilization, review of From Superman to Man	299
102	White People versus Negroes: Being the Story of a Great Book From Superman to Man	301
103	Review of The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy	305
104	The Rising Tide of Color	309
105	The Brown Ban Leads the Way, Part I, review of The New World of Islam	310
106	The Brown Man Leads the Way, review of The New World of Islam	315
107	Review of Darkwater	319
108	Review of The Negro Year Book, 1918-1919	322
109	The Superscientist, review of The Place of Science in Modern Civilization and Other Essays	323
110	The Black Man's Burden, review of The Black Man's Burden	326
111	The Caucasian Canker in South Africa, review of The Real South Africa	330
112	M. Maran's Batouala	334
113	The Southern Black - As Seen by the Eye of Fiction, review of Highly Colored	336
114	The Real Negro Humor	337
115	Negro Church History: A Book of It Badly Marred by Neglect of the Race Foundation, review of The History of the Negro Church	339
116	Negro's Part in History, review of The Negro in Our History	340
117	Homo Africanus Harlemi, review of Nigger Heaven	341
118	Nigger Heaven - A Review of the Reviewers	344
119	No Negro Literary Renaissance	351
120	Cabaret School of Negro Literature and Art	355
121	Harlem's Neglected Opportunities	357
122	Review of The Story of Mankind	362
123	Satyricon of Petronius, letter to the New York Times	364
124	On Reading Negro Books	365
125	Hayti Finds a Friend: Black Hayti: A Biography of Africa's Eldest Daughter	366
11	Theater Reviews
126	Negro Society and the Negro Stage, Preamble	370
127	Negro Society and the Negro Stage, Part 2	373
128	Canary Cottage: A Dramatic Opinion	377
129	The Emperor Jones	378
130	The Negro Actor on Broadway: A Critical Interpretation by a Negro Critic	383
12	Poets and Poetry
131	The Black Man's Burden (A Reply to Rudyard Kipling)	389
132	Another Negro Poet	391
133	Poetry of Claude McKay	392
134	Black Bards of Yesterday and Today, review of The Book of American Negro Poetry	394
13	The International Colored Unity League and the Way Forward
135	Program and Principles of the International Colored Unity League	399
136	The Right Way to Unity	402
137	The Common People	404
138	The Roots of Power	405
	Biographical Sources on Harrison	407
	Notes	411
	Index of Titles	453
	General Index	457