The Historical Context and Political Significance of Harlem's Street Scholar Community (Report‪)‬

I have insisted ever since my entry into the area of racial discussion that we Negroes must take to reading and study and the development of intelligence as we have never done before we can use Europe's education [but never] ... become apes of their culture ... To the masses of our people we say Read! Get the reading habit; spend your time not so much in training the feet to dance, as in training the head to think draw the line between books of opinion and books of information. Saturate your minds with latter and you will be forming your own opinions, which will be worth ten times more to you than the best college is that on your bookshelf, the best education is that on the inside of your own head. And if we of the Negro race can master modern knowledge the kind that counts--we will be able to win for ourselves the price-less gifts of freedom and power, and we will able to hold them against the world. Hubert Henry Harrison,