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biography of Claude McKay

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helping get ideas on racism and what to write for poems and much more

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by his book with Micheal Manly and his poem if we must die and much more

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Claude McKay and why he is important in the Harlem Renaissance

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Claude McKay and why he is important in the Harlem Renaissance

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Claude McKay is important in the Harlem renaissance because he and his partner Micheal Manley they wrote a book that was defying ideological clash and political gaps in African Diaspora Relations

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Claude McKay was a Jamaican poet known for a poem called if we must die which contributed to the Harlem Renaissance 

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Claude McKay was a Jamaican poet known for a poem called if we must die which contributed to the Harlem Renaissance 

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The poem states
Claude McKay
1889 - 1948

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—oh, 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!
Oh, 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!

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Another one of Claude McKays colleges he went to which was Kansas State University

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This is one of the colleges that Claude McKay went to Tuskegee University

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Claude McKay grave where he died at 58  the date he died at was May 22, 1948
he died in Chicago, Illionios

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Claude McKay as a baby
Claude McKay was born September 15,1889
he was born in Claren Don Parish Jamica