(BLACK RADICALISM) HARRISON HUBERT H The Embryo of The Voice

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"WHAT THIS RACE REALLY NEEDS IS A GOOD MAGAZINE" (BLACK RADICALISM.) HARRISON, HUBERT H. The Embryo of The Voice of the Negro. A Magazine, Struggling to be Born. Volume 1, Number 1. Folio sheet, folded to form four large 4to pages; a couple of tiny closed tears to the blank right margins. New York: Hubert H. Harrison, February, 1927

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Hubert H. Harrison (1883-1927), journalist, labor organizer and black nationalist, accomplished much in his brief life. This four-page proposal for a new magazine includes articles on the following subjects: a list of ten things the Negro reader needs, a criticism of Lincoln, and a long article on Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.
A critic of both Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois, Harrison only had a high-school education. Yet his writing appeared frequently in the pages of the New York Times, and the New York Sun. He founded the New Negro Manhood Movement in 1916, and in 1917 introduced Marcus Garvey to a New York audience. For four years, Harrison edited Garvey's Negro World (resigning in 1922), while remaining a regular contributor to the white papers--The New York Times, The New York World--and black papers, the Pittsburgh Courier, the Chicago Defender and the Amsterdam News. There is no question that had he lived, Harrison's name would have been as recognizable today as that of Arthur A. Schomburg, Carter G. Woodson or W. E. B. DuBois. Harrison died ten months after this present paper was printed. See Jeffrey B. Perry's "Hubert H. Harrison Reader" (Wesleyan University Press, 2001). RARE, No copy located by OCLC, not in Schomburg Collection, Blockson.