Claudia Jones
Claudia Jones, ne Claudia Vera Cumberbatch , was a Trinidadborn journalist and activist. As a child she migrated with her family to the US, where she became a political activist and black nationalist through Communism, using the false name Jones as selfprotective disinformation. As a result of her political activities, she was deported in 1955 and subsequently resided in the United Kingdom. She founded Britains first major black newspaper, The West Indian Gazette , in 1958.
Claudia Vera Cumberbatch was born in Belmont, Port of Spain, Trinidad, onFebruary 1915. When she was nine years old, her family emigrated to New York City following the postwar cocoa price crash in Trinidad. Her mother died five years later, and her father eventually found work to support the family. Jones won the Theodore Roosevelt Award for Good Citizenship at her junior high school. In 1932, due to poor living conditions, she was struck with tuberculosis, a condition that irreparably damaged her lungs and plagued her for the rest of her life. She graduated from high school, but her family was so poor that they could not afford to attend the graduation ceremony.
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