Jeffrey Perry

Jeffrey Perry is the author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883 – 1918. Perry is an independent, working-class scholar who was formally educated at Princeton, Harvard, Rutgers, and Columbia University. He was a long- time activist, elected union officer with Local 300, and editor for the National Postal Mail Handlers Union (div. of LIUNA, AFL -CIO, CTW). Dr. Perry preserved and inventoried the Hubert H. Harrison papers (now at Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library) and is the editor of A Hubert Harrison Reader (Wesleyan University Press, 2001). He is also literary executor for Theodore W. Allen (author of The Invention of the White Race) and edited and introduced Allen’s Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race.