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Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday September 30, 1919
“Oh, kinsmen! We must meet the common foe…fighting back!”
From The Messenger of September 1919:
“If We Must Die” by Claude McKay
Self-Defense as Remedy for Race Riots
The Messenger-Riot Number
The Riot Number-Editorials
Page 4-“If We Must Die”
Page 4-Defense of Negro Rioters
Page 5-Mixed Juries for the Riot Trials
The Riot Number-Articles
Page 11-A Report on the Chicago Riot by an Eye-Witness
Page 14 to 22-Cause Of and Remedy For Race Riots by Editors
Page 28-When Negroes Shot a Lynching Bee into Perdition
Page 31-Chicago Rebellion Free Black Men Fight Free White Men
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SOURCE & IMAGES
The Messenger
“Riot Number”
New York, New York
-Sept 1919
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2904887&view=2up&seq=266
Messenger Editors
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2904887&view=2up&seq=268
“If We Must Die” by Claude McKay
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2904887&view=2up&seq=270
The Messenger Editors, Sept 1919
See also:
Claude McKay
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/claude-mckay
Red Summer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Summer
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Claude McKay Recites “If We Must Die”
Battle Hymn Of The Republic – Odetta
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
“As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal”;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
Since God is marching on.