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C. L. R. James

Died in 1989

Cyril Lionel Robert James was born on 4 January 1901 in Tunapuna, in Trinidad, the son of a schoolteacher. A pupil and then a teacher at Queen's Royal College, he left in 1932 for England, where he was a cricket columnist, a historian of the Haitian Revolution, a Trotskyist and a Pan-Africanist activist. Detained and then expelled from the United States in 1953, he returned for a time to Trinidad, fell out with the party in power and spent his last years in London, where he died on 31 May 1989.

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