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May 14, 2011

Jeffrey B. Perry

Basic FactsOccupation:Independent historian. Retired postal mail handler, union officer, and union editor.Area of Research:American history, labor history, race, and class. My work focuses on two of the most important class conscious, anti-white supremacist, working class intellectuals of the twentieth century—the autodidacts Hubert H. Harrison and Theodore W. Allen.Education: