Claude McKay
Through poems like If We Must Die, The Tropics in New York, America and Spring in New Hampshire, Claude McKay expressed the restraints still cast on African Americans in the early twentieth century. McKay gave a voice to those who did not have one at the time. Over the course of his life, McKay migr....
Claude McKay & Jean Toomer
Claude McKay was born on September 15th 1890, in the West Indian island of Jamaica. He was the youngest of eleven children. At the age of ten, he wrote a rhyme of acrostic for an elementary-school gala. He then changed his style and mixed West Indian folk songs with church hymns. At the age of s....
Harlem Renaissance
A century ago the African American world was shaken by a movement that redefined black artistic works, and opened the door for future Black writers, musicians, artists and actors. The New Negro Movement, later known as the Harlem Renaissance, redefined the Black artist and exposed the American Majo....
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