The Power of Knowledge

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“Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism”
Presentation by Jeffrey B. Perry
Dudley Public Library, Roxbury, Massachusetts,
February 15, 2014
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 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. 

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.

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

 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.