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This summer became known as the red summer, race riots occurred
in twenty-five cities across the country. Washington, DC was
one of those cities.
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Claude McKay published a powerful Renaissance note with his
famous sonnet If We Must Die in the Liberator.
In responding to the red summer, this was his poetic call for
courage. During the Second World War, Winston Churchill read
this poem on the BBC to encourage England to withstand the bombing
raids of Germany.
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Eugene ONeill wrote The Emperor Jones, in
which at different times both Charles Gilpin and Paul Robeson
played the title role.
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T. Montgomery
Gregory founded the Howard Players, a college theatre company
at Howard University.
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