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Mr. Daniel Hoskins stands before guns deposited at the Gregg County Courthouse in Longview, Texas, on July 13, 1919, following a “Red Summer” race riot.
In response to the months of intense national race riots known as 1919’s “Red Summer,” Claude McKay publishes “If We Must Die,” a poem urging Black people to fight back against the violence directed at them.
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Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
“If We Must Die"
Claude McKay, 1919