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Claude McKay

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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Born 1890
Died 1948

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  • Cover of: Harlem shadows: poems

    Cover of edition HarlemShadows Cover of edition harlemshadows00mcka First published in 1922 — 19 editions
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  • Cover of: Home to Harlem

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  • Cover of: Selected poems

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  • Cover of: Banana Bottom (The Black Classic Series from X Press)

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  • Cover of: Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes: The American Experience

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  • Cover of: Banjo: a story without a plot.

    Cover of edition banjo0000mcka First published in 1929 — 8 editions
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  • Cover of: The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1949

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  • Cover of: Spring in New Hampshire and other poems

    First published in 1920 — 7 editions
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  • Cover of: The United States in Literature

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  • Cover of: Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience

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  • Cover of: The dialect poetry of Claude McKay : two volumes in one

    First published in 1953 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Complete poems

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Born 1890
Died 1948

Subjects

Fiction, Poetry, History, African Americans, American poetry, Classic Literature, Union, hanging, short story, American Civil War, American literature, Confederacy, Drama, Juvenile audience, United States Civil War, civil war, African American authors, American Horror tales, American drama, Blacks, Children's fiction, Confederate States of America, Fiction, general, Literature, Reading Level-Grade 11

Places

Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge, United States, Jamaica, England, Massachusetts, Andover, Barbados, China, Eastern Europe, Harlem (New York, N.Y.), Mallard residence, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Milford meeting house, Missouri, Salem, Salem (Mass.), Soviet Union, kingdom by the sea, Florida, Fountain of Youth, France, Marseille (France), N.Y.) Harlem (New York, New England

People

Peyton Farquhar, Devil, Ethelred, Madeline Usher, Roderick Usher, Abigail Williams, Amanda Wingfield, Ann Putnam, Annabel Lee, Arthur Miller (1915-), Aylmer, Betty Parris, Brently Mallard, Bridget Bishop, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Proctor, Ezekiel Cheever, George Herrick, George Jacobs, Georgiana, Giles Corey, God, Jim O'Connor, John Hale, John Hathorne

Time

1861-65, 19th century, 1861-1865, American Civil War, 1692, Civil War, 1861-1865, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, 1600s, 20th century, Civil War, December, carnival

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  • McKay, Claude, 1890-1948

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