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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday October 9, 1921
Two Sonnets by Claude McKay: “Baptism” & “The White City”
From The Liberator of October 1921:
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Claude McKay, Fighting Back, Messenger p4, Sept 1919
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2904887&view=2up&seq=270
The Liberator
(New York, New York)
-Oct 1921
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/culture/pubs/liberator/1921/10/v04n10-w43-oct-1921-liberator.pdf
See also:
Claude McKay (1890-1948)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_McKay
Tag: Claude McKay
https://weneverforget.org/tag/claude-mckay/
“The Rise of the New Negro”
https://www.britannica.com/art/African-American-literature/The-rise-of-the-New-Negro
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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.