"The Novels and Stories of [Charles] Dickens" (October 28),
"[Henry Wadsworth] Longfellow—The Poet of the Hearthside" (November 4),
"[Rudyard] Kipling in Prose and Verse" (November 1),
"Our Own Mark Twain" (November 18),
"The Poetry of [Alfred, Lord] Tennyson" (November 25),
"Edgar Allan Poe, Poet and Prose Writer" (December 9),
"Thirty Years of H. G. Wells" (December 16).
In 1922 (ninety-nine years ago), Hubert Harrison was hired to deliver a regular series of Saturday evening lectures for the New York City Board of Education Lecture Bureau. The series on "Literary Lights of Yesterday and Today" at the 135th Street Public Library was "the first instance of any Negro attaining to that height." The board occasionally had Black lecturers, "but not a series." His schedule was:
"The Novels and Stories of [Charles] Dickens" (October 28),
"[Henry Wadsworth] Longfellow—The Poet of the Hearthside" (November 4),
"[Rudyard] Kipling in Prose and Verse" (November 1),
"Our Own Mark Twain" (November 18),
"The Poetry of [Alfred, Lord] Tennyson" (November 25),
"Edgar Allan Poe, Poet and Prose Writer" (December 9),
"Thirty Years of H. G. Wells" (December 16).
This information is from Jeffrey B. Perry, "Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927" (Columbia University Press). For more information on that volume see HERE