Personal Life
James married his first wife, Juanita Young, in Trinidad in 1929, but his move three years later to Britain led to their estrangement. He met his second wife, Constance Webb (1918–2005), an American model, actor and author, after he moved to the USA in 1938; she wrote of having first heard him speak in the spring of 1939 at a meeting in California. They married in 1946 and were divorced in 1953, when James was deported to England. He and Webb had a son, C. L. R. James, Jr, familiarly known as Nobbie. In 1956 James married Selma Weinstein (née Deitch), who had been a young member of the Johnson-Forest Tendency; they remained close political colleagues for more than 25 years. She is best known as the founder of the International Wages for Housework Campaign.
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