Poet Claude McKay

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Claude McKay

Living place: Clarendon Parish

Birthday: 15-9-1889

Global rank: #43058

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Who is Poet Claude McKay?
Jamaican-American poet and author associated with the Harlem Renaissance and known for such novels as Home to Harlem, Banana Bottom, and Banjo. His poetry anthology includes Songs of Jamaica and Constab Ballads.
He was active in communist circles during the first two decades of the twentieth century.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He left his native Jamaica in 1912 to attend Tuskegee Academy. He then transferred to Kansas State University.

Family life info

He was born in Clarendon, Jamaica. He married his lover, Eulalie Lewars, in 1914.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Poet Claude McKay?
He was influenced by the work of W. E.B Dubois.

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When was Poet Claude McKay born?
Claude McKay was born in 15-9-1889, death year is , at the age of 135.
Where is Poet Claude McKay's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Claude McKay was born in Clarendon Parish, of Jamaica. is a Poet, whose Zodiac is Virgo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Ox. Claude McKay's global rank is 43058 and whose rank is 132 in list of famous Poet.
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Events in 1889 and 15-9

Birthday Claude McKay (15-9) in history

  • Day 15-9 year 1789: The U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs changed its name to the Department of State.
  • Day 15-9 year 1821: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador gained independence.
  • Day 15-9 year 1835: Naturalist Charles Darwin and the HMS Beagle have reached the Galapagos Islands.
  • Day 15-9 year 1917: Alexander Kerensky proclaimed Russia a republic.
  • Day 15-9 year 1935: The Nuremberg Laws deprived Jews of their citizenship and made the Swastika the official emblem of Nazi Germany.
  • Day 15-9 year 1963: A church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, killed four young black girls.
  • Day 15-9 year 1989: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Penn Warren, the first poet laureate of the United States, died.
  • Day 15-9 year 2004: The National Hockey League lockout began. The 2004-2005 season would ultimately be canceled.
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