Festus Claudius McKay (September 15, 1890 – May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican-American writer and poet, and a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
Born in Jamaica, McKay first traveled 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 wrote "If We Must Die", one of his best known works, a widely reprinted sonnet responding to the wave of white-on-black race riots and lynchings following the conclusion of the First World War.
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Fiction, African Americans, History, Poetry, Classic Literature, Union, hanging, American literature, Confederacy, United States Civil War, short story, Drama, American Civil War, American poetry, Jamaican Americans, Juvenile audience, Literature, Prisoners, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Satanism, Short Stories, civil war, clergy, freedomPlaces
Alabama, Jamaica, Owl Creek Bridge, United States, England, Harlem (New York, N.Y.), Mallard residence, Massachusetts, Milford meeting house, Andover, Barbados, China, Eastern Europe, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Salem, Salem (Mass.), Soviet Union, Missouri, kingdom by the sea, Florida, Fountain of Youth, France, Marseille (France), N.Y.) Harlem (New York, New EnglandPeople
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19th century, 1861-1865, American Civil War, 1861-65, 20th century, Civil War, 1861-1865, 1692, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, 1600s, Civil War, December, To 1964, carnivalID Numbers
- OLID: OL24457A
- ISNI: 0000000108625951
- VIAF: 2489725
- Wikidata: Q1096967
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q1096967
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- Claude McKAY
- McKay, Claude, 1890-1948
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