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Claude McKay
William Churchill during World War II. He also wrote " The Baptism, The White House and Lynching", all sonnet exemplifying some of McKay's finest protest poems. It is known that there are many who have enjoyed McKay's poem, as stated by Giles. The generation of poets who form the core of Harlem Renaissance including Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen identified Claude McKay as an inspiration even though he did not write with the directness with which he spoke of racial issues, and his choice of working class rather than middle class as his focus.
Claude McKay has made Jamaica proud through his outstanding work and great fame. His name has become a legend to his fellow jamaicans and because of that "Claude McKay High School in Sunnyville, Clarendon has been name in his honor. Whatever challenges or shortcomings he faced, Claude McKay's spontaneous humor and infectious laughter conveyed through his poems, has left an indelible impression on the literacy history as well as the minds of the many people who have found time to appreciate is work.
Bibliography
Claude McKay. Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance. A Bibliography. Wayne Cooper.
Claude McKay's Life Modern American Poetry. Freda Scott Giles.
http://www/anb.org/articles/16/16-01105.html; American National Biography Online Feb 2000. Access Date: Nov 23 19:40 2003.