| LC control no. | n 50028957 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR9272.9.J35 |
| Personal name heading | James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989 |
| Variant(s) | James, Cyril Lionel Robert, 1901-1989 |
| See also | Alternate identity: Johnson, J. R., 1901-1989 |
| Associated country | Trinidad and Tobago |
| Birth date | 1901-01-04 |
| Death date | 1989-05-31 |
| Place of birth | Chaguanas (Trinidad and Tobago) |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Affiliation | Queen's Royal College (Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) University of the District of Columbia |
| Profession or occupation | Historians Authors Political activists College teachers |
| Found in | The case for West-Indian self-government ... 1933. C.L.R. James's Caribbean, 1992: CIP galley (d. May 1989) Contemp. authors: v. 128 (James, C(yril) L(ionel) R(obert), 1901-1989; pseud.: J.R. Johnson; b. 1-4-1901 in Chaguanas, Trinidad; d. 5-31-1989 in London; political organizer, historian, journalist, translator, author, Marxist intellectual of many talents; teacher and magazine editor in Trinidad until moving to England in early 1930's; became cricket editor for Manchester guardian; moved to U.S. in 1938; expelled in 1953 and spent remainder of his life in England; some political pamphlets appeared under his pseudonym, J.R. Johnson) The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 17, 2014: (Cyril Lionel Robert James; James, C.L.R.; eminent pan-africanist; born in Tunapuna, Trinidad in 1901; studied and became a teacher at Queen's Royal College; sailed off for England in 1932; became a columnist for cricket in the Manchester Guardian; traveled to the United States in 1938 at the behest of the Socialist Workers Party; deported from the United States to England in 1953; during the 1970s traveled extensively throughout Africa, Europe, and America, delivering lectures on history, politics, literature, and art; taught at the University of the District of Columbia for most of the 1970s; died in London in 1989) |
| Associated language | eng |
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