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Claude McKay was born in Jamacia
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Claude became the apprentice to a a carriage and cabnet maker
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Met a man who incouraged him to keep writing and convensied him to write a native dialect . It was published the songs of Jamacia
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McKay left Jamacia to go to Booker T.Washington Tuskegees institute he was suprised to see all of the racism
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Claude decided not to be agronomist and moved to New York and married is childhood sweatheart Eulalie Lewers
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Claude wrote two poems in Seven Arts under Alias Eli Edwards while workink has a waiter
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1919 he met Crystal and Max Eastman who who produced the Liberator Claude would serve as co-editor until 1922
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McKay arrived in London in autumn 1919. He did frequent a soldier's clubon Drury Lane and the International Socialist Club at Shoreditch.
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At the International Socialist Club, McKay met Shapurji Saklatvala, A. J. Cook, Guy Aldred, Jack Tanner, Arthur McManus, William Gallacher, Sylvia Pankhurst and George Lansbury. He was invited to write for the Workers' Dreadnought. In 1920,
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From November 1922 to June 1923, hewhent to the Soviet Union and attended the fourth congress of the Communist International in Moscow
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stayed in Moscow to join the congress and There, he met many leading Bolsheviks including Leon Trotsky, Nikolai Bukharin and Karl Radek. He wrote the manuscripts for a book of essays called Negroes in America
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In 1928, McKay published his most famous novel, Home to Harlem,it won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature.