Source B Claudia Jones
Claudia Cumberbatch was born in Trinidad in 1915. She later changed her surname to ‘Jones’ as, in her own words, ‘self-protective disinformation’, when her radical political activities attracted the attention of the authorities. She migrated with her parents to Harlem in New York when she was 9 years old. Her mother died in 1927 and Claudia herself developed tuberculosis, a disease associated with poverty at the time, when she was 17. This affected her health for the rest of her life and contributed to her early death in 1964.
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