Claude McKay
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title:
Claude McKay
text:
Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay OJ was a Jamaican-American writer and poet. He was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Jamaica, McKay first travelled to the United States to attend college, and encountered W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk which stimulated McKay's interest in political involvement. He moved to New York City in 1914 and, in 1919, he wrote "If We Must Die", one of his best known works, a widely reprinted sonnet responding to the wave of white-on-black race
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Jamaican American writer and poet (1889–1948)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_McKay
date created:
2003-08-26T22:52:21Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T23:33:59Z
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