Claude McKay:
(Claredon, 15 September 1890 – Chicago, 22 May 1948). Jamaican-American writer and poet. In 1912, he moved from Jamaica to the United States for higher education. There, McKay became actively involved in political activism, inspired by the work of W.E.B. Du Bois. In 1914, he settled in New York, where he wrote the famous poem If We Must Die in 1919 in response to racist tensions following World War I.
When June comes dancing o’er the death of May, with scarlet roses tinting her green breast, and mating thrushes ushering in her day, and Earth on tiptoe for her golden guest, I always see the evening when we met.
