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Essay on How Does Claude Mckay's Poetry Succeed Form And Culture
"The White House” is the best known of Claude McKay's poems. During the Harlem Renaissance it became a kind of rallying cry for young Negro writers, who felt it expressed their own spirit of defiance. Although McKay later claimed that the sonnet was a universal statement, when it was initially published in July 1919, in Liberator magazine, James Weldon Johnson, an active participant in both the NAACP and the Harlem Renaissance, had no doubt that it was inspired by the summer of race riots--especially the riot in Chicago--that came to be called "The Red Summer of 1919.................
