Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay OJ (September 15, 1890 – May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican-American writer and poet. He was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance...
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During the Harlem Renaissance, various well-known figures, including Claude Mckay, Langston Hughes, and Ethel Waters, are believed to have had private...
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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...
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correspondence, authenticated the manuscript as a previously unknown 1941 work by Claude McKay, called Amiable With Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affair Between the...
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doi:10.1017/S0020859000000419. ISSN 0020-8590. Nickels, Joel (2014). "Claude Mckay and Dissident Internationalism". Cultural Critique. 87: 1–37. doi:10...
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has gained ground as a literary language for almost a hundred years. Claude McKay published his book of Jamaican poems Songs of Jamaica in 1912. Patois...
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Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993) Benjamin E. Mays (1894–1984) Elijah McCoy (1844–1929) Claude McKay (1890–1948) Oscar Micheaux (1884–1951) Dorie Miller (1919–1943)...
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writers, including Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, and Claude McKay. She was born Jessie Redmona Fauset (later known as Jessie Redmon Fauset)...
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manager Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908 – 2009), a French anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Rains (1889 – 1967), a British-American actor Claude McKay (1890...
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Harlem Renaissance's writers, including Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Claude McKay, Alain Locke and W.E.B. Du Bois addressed the themes of "noireism", race...
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writers including Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, and Eric Walrond. The New Negro: An Interpretation dives...
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McKay (disambiguation) Antonio McKay Barrie McKay Ben McKay (disambiguation) Bill McKay (disambiguation) Billy Mckay Bob McKay Bobby McKay Brad McKay...
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footnotes to Claude McKay's Songs of Jamaica (1912). In his novel Banana Bottom (1933) first published four years after Jekyll's death,Claude McKay states "This...
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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...
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movement in New York City and the U.S. Afro-Caribbean people, such as Claude McKay and Eric D. Walrond, were influential in the Harlem Renaissance as artists...
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writers Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen and Claude McKay as among those who had "taken the blues as a poetry form" in the 1920s...
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German female in sight. Two contemporaries challenged Morel on that: Claude McKay, the Jamaican poet and labour activist, and Norman Leys, the British...
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often picketing stores and giving speeches on street corners. Author Claude McKay was a Harlem resident during the period and wrote extensively about Sufi...
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Neale Hurston, Wallace Thurman, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Richard Bruce Nugent, and Aaron Douglas. Except for McKay, they worked together also to create...
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and employing its first black correspondent, the Jamaican writer Claude McKay. With McKay, Pankhurst shared outrage at the Daily Herald's campaign against...
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Georgia Douglas Johnson Helene Johnson James Weldon Johnson Nella Larsen Claude McKay May Miller Effie Lee Newsome Richard Bruce Nugent Esther Popel George...
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and associated with writers including Richard Wright, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, William Saroyan, Benjamin Appel, Thomas Wolfe, Malcolm Lowry, Ford Madox...
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leaders Briggs and Claude McKay participated in the UNIA's 1920 and 1921 international conferences in New York. At the second conference, McKay arranged for...
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June 2006). "Queen of the mixed border". The Guardian. Wayne F. Cooper, Claude McKay: Rebel Sojourner In The Harlem Renaissance, Louisiana State University...
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Gregory, Thomas P. Mahammitt, Paschal Beverly Randolph, Maya Rudolph, Claude McKay, Jess Tom, Ben Jealous, and Keenen Ivory Wayans. The first recorded African...
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Zora Neale Hurston and Nella Larsen and poets such as Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Countee Cullen wrote works describing the African-American experience...
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Harlem YMCA (redirect from McKay, Claude, Residence)
""Claude McKay Residence", by Lynne Gomez-Graves (National Register of Historic Places Inventory)" (pdf). National Park Service. n.d. "Claude McKay...
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writer Claude McKay, with whom she shared an apartment in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan. The relationship was brief and tumultuous – McKay would...
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Marcel – leading Christian existentialist; his upbringing was agnostic Claude McKay – bisexual Jamaican poet who went from Communist-leaning atheist to an...
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(Jessie Fauset's younger half-brother), Jean Toomer, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Effie Lee Newsome, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Bennett, Arna Bontemps...
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