Claude McKay recalled his own experience in London during the war: “One club was for colored soldiers. It was situated in a basement in Drury Lane. There was a host of colored soldiers in London, from the West Indies and Africa, with a few colored Americans, East Indians, and Egyptians among them … I went often and listened to the soldiers telling tales of their war experiences in France, Egypt and Arabia. Many were interested in what American Negroes were thinking and writing.”

Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making o…, loc. 2380