He was perhaps a novelty as a Black man from colonial Jamaica. He managed in 1919 to work his way to London, where he mixed with the radical figures of the day such as Sylvia Pankhurst contributed to her pro-communist newspaper and frequented activist clubs where the talk was of revolution and Bolshevism. McKay, Winston James tells us, had an insatiable desire to “wander and wonder”. He had been a moderate reforming socialist in Jamaica, but the US and the racism to be found there turned him into a revolutionary. He saw first-hand poverty and discrimination, and this shaped his politics and poetry. The racism he encountered in South Carolina took him to New York, where he worked running a restaurant, as a hotel porter, and as a waiter on the Pennsylvania Railway. His name was Claude McKay and his life, as well as his work, was nothing short of extraordinary.Ī new political biography, Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik, by Jamaica-born academic Winston James, reveals in fascinating detail the story of the militant poet who came from an unusually prosperous Black farming family in Clarendon Parish, but who would go on to meet Trotsky and embrace the cause of the Russian Revolution.īorn in 1890, he was writing poetry by the age of 10, was an apprentice cabinet-maker, and served as a police constable before moving to the US in 1912 to study agriculture. It formed part of his collection of poems, Harlem Shadows, published a century ago in New York - a collection that is now considered a landmark in Black literature. The events of 1919 were an American tragedy, but the poem was written by a Jamaican - undoubtedly one of the greatest of many fine writers from the island. Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back! Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, African-Americans often had little choice but to defend themselves, as the poet suggests they must: Hundreds died and many more homes and businesses were attacked by white mobs. The so-called Red Summer following the end of World War I witnessed a spate of murders, lynchings, and riots across the United States, as mass migration from the southern states and economic hardship fuelled resentment and racist violence against Black communities. The poem was written in the most horrible of contexts. Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,Īnd for their thousand blows deal one death-blow! Yet both turned to words written in 1919 in a stirring call to arms entitled “If We Must Die”: So if you have any questions, we will be happy to answer them.W hat on earth could the conservative British prime minister Winston Churchill and the progressive Black Lives Matter movement have in common? Not a lot, is the obvious answer - except that both, in very different circumstances, quoted lines from the same poem to inspire among listeners a mood of heroic defiance.Ĭhurchill was appealing for US support in the face of Nazi aggression in the 1940s, and the BLM protesting against the scourge of racial violence in the wake of George Floyd’s death. Please provide your phone number when placing your order, it is important when the courier delivers your package. After sending your order, you will receive your shipment tracking information Orders are shipped via courier companies.
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