![]() It was perhaps inevitable he should be expelled in 1953 when America was gripped by Senator McCarthy's obsession with un-American activities, but this meant his efforts were channelled into West Indies politics, especially the move towards a Caribbean federation. ![]() James returned to the United States, where he increasingly wrote and lectured, with great clarity of language and deep conviction, on social and political reform. Neville Cardus helped make it possible for James to contribute to the Manchester Guardian, and his writing flourished in addition to his own books on black radicalism, he helped Constantine to produce Cricket and I. James was a close friend of the great all-rounder, Learie Constantine, who invited him to Lancashire in 1932 when he was playing league cricket with Nelson. James was a scholarship boy who became deeply involved in politics with a strong Marxist flavour at a time when West Indian nationalism began to burgeon and black cricketers of the Caribbean looked for more acknowledgement of their place in society and in the sport. ![]() Born just outside Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, C. ![]() Cyril Lionel Robert James, died on May 31, 1989, at the age of 88 in his tiny Brixton home in South London which, in his final years, had become a place of pilgrimage for admirers of both his cricket and his political writings. ![]()
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