1. TO DO: Take out your homework (Purple Packet)
January 22nd
TO DO: Take out your homework (Purple Packet)

2. Why is this happening now?
Race Riots
On July 27, 1919, an African-American teenager drowned in Lake Michigan after violating the unofficial segregation of Chicago’s beaches and being stoned by a group of white youths.
His death, and the police’s refusal to arrest the white man whom eyewitnesses identified as causing it, sparked a week of rioting between groups of black and white Chicagoans.
When the riots ended on August 3, 15 whites and 23 blacks had been killed and more than 500 people injured; an additional 1,000 black families had lost their homes when they were torched by rioters.
Why is this happening now?
The Red Summer refers to the race riots that occurred in more than three dozen cities in the United States during the summer and early autumn of In most instances, whites attacked African Americans.

3. Harlem Renaissance Renaissance = rebirth
The name given to the cultural, social, and artistic rebirth that took place in Harlem, NY between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s.
During this period Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars.

4. NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
An African-American civil rights organization in the United States
Formed in 1909 by Moorfield Storey, Mary White Ovington and W. E. B. Du Bois.
Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination".

5. If We Must Die, by Claude McKay
A Jamaican-American writer and poet, who was a important figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
1912  America to attend Tuskegee Institute
McKay was shocked by the intense racism he encountered when he arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, where many public facilities were segregated, which inspired him to write more poetry.
Wrote this poem during the Red Summer
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6. If We Must Die, by Claude McKay
If we must die—let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die—oh, let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! Oh, Kinsmen! We must meet the common foe; Though far outnumbered, let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!