Claudia Jones was born Claudia Vera Cumberbatch in Trinidad and Tobago on February 21, 1915. She emigrated with her family to the United States when she was nine years old, after the price of cocoa devastated the economy of the islands. She was an excellent student, but was poor, so poor in fact that her […]
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