 Harris' radical beliefs prompted a 1935 report entitled the "Harris Report" suggesting that the NAACP take a more active and affirmative stance on race relations in the United States.As the Great Depression progressed, Harris' radicalism declined.As Harris wrote in the 1957 introduction to his personal collection of essays, he was "emerging from a state of social rebellion [while] still adher[ing] somewhat to socialistic ideas by the late 1920s."