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This new Diasporic Africa Press edition includes the complete text of Harrison\'s original 1920 volume; contains essays from publications Harrison edited in the 1917-1920 period including The Voice (the first newspaper of the "New Negro Movement"), The New Negro, and the Garvey movement\'s Negro World; and offers a new introduction, biographical sketch, and supplementary notes by Harrison\'s biographer, Jeffrey B.
Philip Randolph as "the father of Harlem Radicalism." He was a major radical influence on Randolph, Marcus Garvey, and a generation of "New Negro" activists.
Rogers as "perhaps the foremost Aframerican intellect of his time" and by A.
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Harrison\'s "When Africa Awakes: The "Inside Story" of the Stirrings and Strivings of the New Negro in the Western World" is a collection of over fifty articles that detail his pioneering theoretical, educational, and organizational role in the founding and development of the militant, World War I era "New Negro Movement." Harrison was a brilliant, class and race conscious, writer, educator, orator, editor, book reviewer, political activist, and radical internationalist who was described by J.
Virgin Islands-born, Harlem-based, Hubert H
