21. Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Project After emigrating to America from Jamaica, claude mckay (18901948) became a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Whether protesting racial and economic http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poems/poet.html?id=4573

22. Claude McKay Though not a native American, Jamaican born claude mckay was one of the most prominent figures in the Harlem Renaissance. His If We Must Die was published http://www.miamisci.org/youth/unity/Unity1/Brenda/pages/McKay.html

C laude M ckay Though not a native American, Jamaican born Claude McKay was one of the most prominent figures in the Harlem Renaissance. His "If We Must Die" was published in the Liberator in 1919, making it one of the very first poems initiating the tone, subject, and matter of the literary movement. Here are a few lines from the text: "If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, . . . Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!" The content of "If We Must Die" is revolutionary a quality evident in much of McKay's writing. As the poem suggests, McKay believed it to be a poet's duty to politically inform and agitate the minds of the people. During his lifetime, he often spoke out against and wrote about the institutionalized racism of governments in some of the world's most powerful countries. America and England were two of his more popular targets. He traveled from Jamaica visiting numerous places such as America, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. During his travels, he could not help but observe and study the oppression of different peoples and attempt his best to advocate political change.

23. "If We Must Die": Claude McKay Limns The "New Negro" Black soldiers returning from World War I shared a new sense of pride, militancy, and entitlement, as expressed in claude mckay’s 1919 protest poem If We http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5130/

home many pasts evidence www.history ... about us The New Negro "If We Must Die" If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen! We must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one death blow! What though before us lies the open grave? Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back! Harlem Shadows: The Poems of Claude McKay (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1922). See Also: The Harlem Renaissance: George Schuyler Argues against "Black Art" The Harlem Renaissance: Zora Neale Hurston's First Story

24. Claude McKay JamaicanAmerican poet claude mckay (1889-1948) came to the U.S. in 1912 and became an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance. http://www.aalbc.com/authors/claude.htm

document.write(''); Claude McKay African American Literature Book Club - The #1 Site for "Readers of Black Literature" Enter your search terms Submit search form Search the Web AALBC.com Thumpers Corner Book Search Home Back Author Home Up ... Advertise Claude McKay - Jamaica's Poet Laureate Claude McKay Photo: Carl Van Vecten Festus Claudius McKay was born in Clarendon in 1890 to Thomas and Hannah McKay, farmers. The youngest of eleven children he would go on to become one of the leading figures of the 1920s American cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. Home to Harlem Click to order via Amazon ISBN: 1555530249 Format: Textbook Paperback, 340pp Publisher: Northeastern University Press From the Publisher "Jake is on the run. After serving overseas with the U.S. Army, he goes AWOL and makes his own way back home to Harlem. Back to the life he had before. Back to the basement joints, pool rooms and rent parties. Back to brown breasts throbbing with love and brown lips full and pouted for sweet kissing." No hero's welcome awaits him. Only the same hard-drinking, hard-living scrabble for love and a home that he left behind. In this world of gamblers, loan sharks, lonely women and rivals in love, Jake seems to have it all. But the women of Harlem aren't the only ones keen to make this fine-looking soldier their man. Uncle Sam wants him too! From The Critics Mr. McKay's book assails the optical, the olfactory, the kinaesthetic antennae whereby the human being takes in the world about him. In less stilted phrases, you can see, smell and feel what he writes. . . . Much of the charm of Home to Harlem is in the easy, unforced conversation of the many characters. Books of the Century; –John Chamberlain, New York Times review, March 1928

25. Claude McKay: If We Must Die Jamaicanborn writer claude mckay responded by writing this sonnet, urging his comrades to fight back. It had a powerful impact, then and later. http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/mckay.html

Claude McKay: If We Must Die (1919) In 1919 there was a wave of race riots consisting mainly of white assaults on black neighborhoods in a dozen American cities. Jamaican-born writer Claude McKay responded by writing this sonnet, urging his comrades to fight back. It had a powerful impact, then and later. For what reason does McKay say even a doomed resistance is worth while? If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back! Back to table of contents This is an excerpt from Reading About the World, Volume 2

26. Howstuffworks "McKay, Claude - Encyclopedia Entry" Learn about mckay, claude. Read our encyclopedia entry on mckay, claude. http://reference.howstuffworks.com/mckay-claude-encyclopedia.htm

HowStuffWorks.com RSS Make HowStuffWorks your homepage Get Newsletter Search HowStuffWorks and the web: Encyclopedia Humanities Literature American ... Fiction Writers Learn about American Fiction Writers and get information on topics related to American Fiction Writers. Related Categories: REFERENCE LINKS PRINT EMAIL McKay, Claude McKay, Claude (1890-1948), was a black poet and novelist. His poetry is noted for its lyricism and its powerful statements of black militancy. The best known of McKay's three novels is Home to Harlem (1928), the story of a black American soldier's life after his return from France after World War I (1914-1918). This novel became controversial because some black critics protested that it emphasized exotic elements in black life but ignored the major problems of African-Americans. McKay's 10 other books include Harlem Shadows (1922), a collection of poems; Banana Bottom (1933), a novel; A Long Way from Home (1937), an autobiography; and Selected Poems (published in 1953, after his death). Related Topics: Rinehart, Mary Roberts

27. Claude McKay: Poems A collection of poems by claude mckay. claude mckay Bibliography A bibliography of the works of claude mckay; includes a list of critical and http://www.poetry-archive.com/m/mckay_claude.html

POEMS BY CLAUDE MCKAY: After the Winter The Barrier Flame-Heart The Harlem Dancer ... Wild May RELATED LINKS Claude McKay: Bibliography - A bibliography of the works of Claude McKay; includes a list of critical and biographical resources. Purchase books by Claude Mckay Search eBay! for Claude Mckay collectibles BROWSE THE POETRY ARCHIVE: A B C D ... Email Poetry-Archive.com

28. CLAUDE MCKAY COLLECTION The claude mckay Collection was acquired primarily by purchase and gifts from Ruth Hope mckay Virtue, mckay s daughter, from 19641991. http://webtext.library.yale.edu/xml2html/beinecke.mckay.con.html

YALE UNIVERSITY BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY YALE COLLECTION OF AMERICAN LITERATURE CLAUDE MCKAY COLLECTION JWJ MSS 27 by Beinecke Staff New Haven, Connecticut 1993 Last Updated: October 2003 View catalog record Search for digital images from this archive [using call number] Connect to Beinecke Library's Home Page Connect to Yale Library's Finding Aid Database [ the source of this file EXTENT Total Boxes: 21 Other Storage Formats: 1 object storage item Linear Feet: 11.35' ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION PROVENANCE The Claude McKay Collection was acquired primarily by purchase and gifts from Ruth Hope McKay Virtue, McKay's daughter, from 1964-1991. Original letters from McKay to others appear to have come into the collection with the original purchase in 1964. Additional gifts have been made by Liliane Blary, Sister Mary Conroy, Wayne Cooper and William Schenck. CITE AS Claude McKay Collection. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS This collection is open for research.

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30. Jamaica Gleaner : Pieces Of The Past: Claude McKay - Jamaica's Poet Laureate 189 An anthem of resistance, the sonnet belongs to Jamaicanborn poet claude mckay who wrote these words in 1919 during what was known as the Red Summer a http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/pages/history/story0039.htm

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31. HOME AT LAST : The Pilgrimage Of Claude McKay - Black Poet Converted To Christia HOME AT LAST The pilgrimage of claude mckay black poet converted to Christianity from Commonweal in Reference provided free by Find Articles. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1252/is_1999_Sept_10/ai_55820350

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33. RPO -- Selected Poetry Of Claude McKay (1889-1948) claude mckay, born in Sunny Ville, Jamaica on September 15, 1889, came to America in 1912, the year his two books of Jamaican dialect verse came out, http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/220.html

Poet Index Poem Index Random Search ... Concordance document.writeln(divStyle) Selected Poetry of Claude McKay (1889-1948) from Representative Poetry On-line Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967. RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries Index to poems What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back! (If We Must Die, 12-14) America December, 1919 Enslaved Harlem Shadows ... The Tropics in New York Notes on Life and Works Claude McKay, born in Sunny Ville, Jamaica on September 15, 1889, came to America in 1912, the year his two books of Jamaican dialect verse came out, Songs of Jamaica and Constab Ballads . He studied agriculture for two years, first at Tuskegee in Alabama, and then at Kansas State University, but he left school for good to go to New York in 1914, where he worked at menial jobs, including (as Max Eastman remembers) dining-car service on the Pennsylvania railroad. He also had a short career as a restaurant owner, and a brief marriage to Eulalie Imelda Edwards, that same year, but lost both and never was to see his daughter Ruth Hope because his wife had returned to Jamaica. Recognized as a leading writer of the Harlem Renaissance, McKay published his only two American volumes of poetry in 1920 (

34. Claude McKay (1889-1948) James R. Giles s claude mckay is a good book for teachers. The text is well organized, and the index makes it easy to locate specific information. http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/mckay.html

Claude McKay (1889-1948) Contributing Editor: Elvin Holt Classroom Issues and Strategies I suggest that teachers begin with McKay's love poems. This approach allows students to relate to McKay on a purely human level and prepares them for the discomforting racial themes that dominate some of the other poems. Students respond to the persistent racism in American society. Some non-black students want to know why they have to read such poems. Many of them believe the poems are "for black people." Some students object to the eroticism of the love poems. "Flame-Heart" evokes the romantic tradition of Wordsworth and Shelley, poets whose work McKay admired greatly. This finely wrought poem, which expresses the poet's deep longing for Jamaica, his beloved homeland, highlights McKay's interest in nonracial themes. "A Red Flower," one of McKay's most striking love poems, features brilliant conceits similar to those found in the poetry of John Donne and other metaphysical poets. Identify the metaphor in the first and last stanzas of the poem. In "Flower of Love," McKay presents another example of his passionate, yet controlled, love poetry. Like "A Red Flower," "Flower of Love" turns on an elaborate conceit, recalling the best work of Andrew Marvell. Describe the poem's central metaphor and explain the reference to the South.

35. McKay, Claude Eric Fergusson (1878 - 1972) Biographical Entry - Australian Dicti mckay, claude Eric Fergusson (1878 1972) Biographical Entry - The Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, or ADB Online, is a biographical dictionary http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150273b.htm

Australian Dictionary of Biography - Online Edition Main site navigation Home Advanced Search Browse About ... Help Quick Search Related entries (A-Z) McKay, Cecil Newton (1899 - 1968) (A-Z) McKay, Hugh Victor (1865 - 1926) McKay, Claude Eric Fergusson (1878 - 1972) Birth: 19 July 1878 Kilmore Victoria Australia Death: 21 February 1972 Bowral New South Wales Australia Cultural Heritage: Scottish Religious Influence: Anglican Occupation: advertising agent autobiographer/memoirist journalist newspaper editor ... Abbreviations McKAY, CLAUDE ERIC FERGUSSON (1878-1972), newspaper proprietor, was born on 19 July 1878 at Kilmore, Victoria, fourth of seven children of Scottish-born parents Ronald Donald McKay, stock and station agent, and his wife Emily Knight, n©e Kennedy. Claude was educated at Kilmore State School, and in Melbourne at Brunswick College and Brighton Grammar School. He started work at the Kilmore Advertiser where he wrote editorial copy, and helped to set the type, print the paper and distribute it on horseback After gaining experience on several other newspapers and studying mineralogy at the Working Men's College, Melbourne, he joined the

36. The Harlem Dancer By Claude McKay. James Weldon Johnson, Ed. 1922. The Book Of A The Harlem Dancer by claude mckay. James Weldon Johnson, ed. 1922. The Book of American Negro Poetry. http://www.bartleby.com/269/76.html

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