[act-ma] Our friend Jeff Perry passed away

[Charlie Welch]

*Jeffrey Perry Obituary - Westwood, NJ 
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https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/...

Sep 24, 2022 · *Jeffrey* B. Perry passed on September 24 after a long 
illness. He was born in the Bronx, October 10,1946 and moved to* Paramus 
NJ* in the 1950s. He also lived in Hoboken and


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He was an independent, working-class scholar who wrote about two of the 
most important thinkers on race and class in the twentieth century: 
Hubert Harrison, “The Father of Harlem Radicalism” and Theodore W. Allen 
who pioneered his class struggle based “white skin privilege” analysis 
in 1965 and wrote “The Invention of the Invention of the White Race.” 
Perry authored a major two volume biography of Harrison. The recently 
published, second volume of his Hubert Harrison biography entitled 
“Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927” (Columbia 
University Press, December 2020) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

For fifty-plus years Perry has been active in the labor movement, 
domestic and international social justice issues including affirmative 
action, workers’ and tenants’ rights, workers’ grievances, union 
democracy, and anti-apartheid, anti-war, and anti-imperialist work.


https://www.jeffreybperry.net/

He spoke a number of times in Boston including at Community Church.