Hubert Harrison
Hubert Harrison, the radical Caribbean immigrant in Harlem who was described as the ‘Black Socrates’
Hubert Harrison is one of the important figures of twentieth-century African-American history. Fondly known as “the Black Socrates,” a title bestowed on him by John G. Jackson of American Atheists, he ran newspapers and political organizations, fostered activists and artists, decried racial injustice in articles and essays and called out black leaders for toadying to…
