...us, though dead ! Oh, kinsman! We must meet the common foe; Though far outnumbered, let us still be brave, And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow...Pressed to the wall, dying, but — fighting back! — Claude McKay. The Octaroon One drop of midnight in the dawn of life's pulsating stream Marks her...

...us, though dead! Oh, kinsman! We must meet the common foe; Though far outnumbered, let us still be brave, And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow!...murderous, cowardly pack Pressed to the wall, dying, but—fighting back! 5. The Widening Problem In view of the world war and the important part taken...

...us, though dead! Oh, kinsmen! We must meet the common foe; Though far outnumbered, let us still be brave, And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!...Pressed to the wall, dying, but — fighting back ! — CLAUDE McKAY Defensive measures justified. — The general belief among Negroes is that resistance...

...honor us, though dead! Oh, kinsmen! We must meet the common foe; Though far outnumbered let us still be brave, And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!...Pressed to the wall, dying, but — fighting back! The Messenger attacks all Negroes who are less radical than itself, including Kelly Miller, Emmett...

...us -though dead ! Oh, Kinsmen! We must meet the common foe; Though far outnumbered, let us still be brave, And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!...Pressed to the wall, dying, but — fighting back! TO THE WHITE FIENDS Think you I am not fiend and savage too? Think you I could not arm me with a gun...

...him the necessity of defiance and struggle if he is to escape exploitation. Л defiant poet has said: Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but — fighting back! VERA FULTON. Slave Songs of the United States. Edited by William Francis Allen, Charles Packard Ware,...

...constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen ! we must meet the common foe ! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows...pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back! Estimate of McKay. These poems show something of the passion of McKay's soul. He loves his own people...

...poet, who writes: Oh, kinsmen! We must meet the common foe; Though far outnumbered, let us still be brave, And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!...Pressed to the wall, dying, but — fighting back! It is true that an especially aggressive Negro, WE Burghardt DuBois, edits the Crisis, and that Claude...

...utterly, is his mood in Enslaved, when he thinks of racial wrongs, to which he adds, in // We Must Die, Like Men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back! There are some poems of purely introspective feeling, such as 7 Know My Soul, Baptism, and Absence,...

...us though dead ! Oh, Kinsmen! We must meet the common foe; Though far outnumbered, let us still be brave, And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!...Pressed to the wall, dying, but — fighting back! Christopher Morley (1922) sink too often in their own sentiments; their swc^....._ frequently cloying,...