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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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Jamaican American writer, poet

Born 1890
Died 1948

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  • Cover of: Harlem shadows: poems

    First published in 1922 19 editions in 1 language — 3 previewable Cover of edition harlemshadows00mcka Cover of edition harlemshadowspoe00mckauoft
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    First published in 1928 12 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition hometoharlem0000mcka
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    First published in 1953 10 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition selectedpoems0000mcka_n7r6
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    First published in 1933 10 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition bananabottom0000mcka_z2a6
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    First published in 1929 8 editions in 2 languages — 2 previewable Cover of edition banjo0000mcka
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    First published in 1920 7 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The United States in Literature

    First published in 1985 5 editions in 1 language — 3 previewable Cover of edition unitedstatesinli0007edunse Cover of edition unitedstatesinli1985mill
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  • Cover of: Complete poems

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

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  • Cover of: The United States in literature

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  • Cover of: Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience

    First published in 1989 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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Jamaican American writer, poet

Born 1890
Died 1948
Subjects
Fiction, History, Classic Literature, Poetry, Union, hanging, Confederacy, United States Civil War, short story, African Americans, American literature, Drama, American Civil War, American poetry, Juvenile audience, Literature, Prisoners, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Satanism, Short Stories, civil war, clergy, freedom, meaning of love
Places
Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge, United States, England, Jamaica, Mallard residence, Massachusetts, Milford meeting house, Andover, Barbados, China, Eastern Europe, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Salem, Salem (Mass.), Soviet Union, Harlem (New York, N.Y.), Missouri, kingdom by the sea, Florida, Fountain of Youth, France, Marseille (France), N.Y.) Harlem (New York, New England
People
Peyton Farquhar, Brently Mallard, Devil, Elizabeth, Josephine, Louise Mallard, Mr. Hooper, Richards, Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam, Arthur Miller (1915-), Betty Parris, Bridget Bishop, Elizabeth Proctor, Ethelred, Ezekiel Cheever, George Herrick, George Jacobs, Giles Corey, God, John Hale, John Hathorne, John Proctor, Madeline Usher, Martha Corey
Time
19th century, 1861-1865, American Civil War, 1861-65, Civil War, 1861-1865, 1692, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, 1600s, 20th century, Civil War, December, carnival

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