Festus Claudius McKay
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Festus Claudius McKay was a Jamaican-American writer and poet. McKay left for the U.S. in 1912 to attend Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute, but did not become an American citizen until 1940. He was shocked at the racism he encountered here and was attracted to communism in his early life, but he was never a member of the Communist Party. Becoming disillusioned with communism, McKay embraced the social teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, to which he converted in 1944.
A long way from home / | Amiable with big teeth : | Harlem glory : | Harlem, Negro metropolis / | Selected poems / | Selected poems of Claude McKay : | The dialect poetry of Claude McKay.