The Power of Knowledge

"Black Resistance" is the theme for Black History Month 2023.

What is a Harlem Radical?

“Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism”
Presentation by Jeffrey B. Perry
Dudley Public Library, Roxbury, Massachusetts,
February 15, 2014
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What is This Thing Called Race?

Jeffrey B. Perry
Slide Presentation/Talk on
The Invention of the White Race (Verso Books) by Theodore W. Allen
with special emphasis on Vol. II: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
Hosted by “The Hubert Harrison and Theodore W. Allen Society”
Filmed by Fred Nguyen on January 31, 2013
Brecht Forum, New York City
Courtesy Fansmiles Productions.

How Do You Measure the Power of Words?

Jeffrey B. Perry Discusses Theodore W. Allen on “The Invention of the White Race,” Labor History, and the Centrality of Labor Struggle Against White Supremacy

In My Own Words

inspirational stories of Harriet A. Jacobs who was born into slavery and taught how to read and write at an early age. She was the first women to author a fugitive slave narrative in the United States.

Mother of the Civil Rights Movement

Septima Clark, civil rights activist, developed the concept of “citizenship schools.”

The Audacity to Read

A self-taught slave who escaped to freedom, Susie King Taylor educated African American soldiers at a time when it was illegal for a black women to read.