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Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay OJ (September 15, 1890 [1] – May 22, 1948) 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.
"If We Must Die" is a poem by Jamaican-American writer Claude McKay (1890–1948) published in the July 1919 issue of The Liberator magazine. McKay wrote the poem in response to mob attacks by white Americans upon African-American communities during the Red Summer. The poem does not specifically reference any group of people, and has been used ...
Songs of Jamaica is the first book published by the African-Jamaican writer Claude McKay, which appeared in January 1912. [1] The Institute of Jamaica awarded McKay the Silver Musgrave Medal for this book and a second volume, Constab Blues, also published in 1912.
Claude McKay First award and Gold medal. Nella Larsen Imes, Second award and Bronze medal. Education. Monroe Work. John Manuel Gandy, Second award and Bronze medal. Industry, including business. S.W. Rutherford, First award and Gold medal. Frederick Massiah, Second award and Bronze medal. Religious services. Lacey Kirk Williams, First award and ...
To The White Fiends is a Petrarchan sonnet by Claude McKay. [1] [2] The Poetry Foundation describes it as one of McKay's most famous works from the late 1910s. [3]In 2018 the scholar Timo Muller described it as "a pivotal text in the history of the black protest sonnet" and notes that it was McKay's first to reach a "wider audience". [4]
Among the many recipients of the awards in literature and the fine arts were Claude McKay, Hale Woodruff, Palmer Hayden, Archibald Motley (his winning piece was The Octoroon Girl), Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes. The awards were closely associated with an annual Exhibition of the Work of Negro Artists, conceived by Mary Brady.
Romance in Marseille is a novel by Claude McKay. The novel was published posthumously in 2020, 87 years after it was written, as the original editors considered the novel too transgressive for its time. [1] [2] It is McKay's second posthumously published novel in recent years. [3]
Cane was celebrated by well-known African-American critics and artists, including Claude McKay, Nella Larsen, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman. [citation needed] Cane is structured in three parts. The first third of the book is devoted to the black experience in the Southern farmland.