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" But, by the God of Heaven, we are cowards and jackasses if now that the war is over we do not marshal every ounce of our brain and brawn to fight a sterner, longer, more unbending battle against the forces of hell in our own land. "
The Voice of the Negro 1919 - Page 36
by Robert Thomas Kerlin - 1920 - 188 pages
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Selected Articles on the Negro Problem

History - 1921 - 464 pages
...Crisis, "we would fight again. But, by the God of Heaven, we are cowards and jackasses if, now that the war is over, we do not marshal every ounce of our...battle against the forces of hell in our own land." "Back again, to be lynched, bombed, and riot-frenzied and segregated !" cries the Chicago Whip. "The...
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Selected Articles on the Negro Problem

African Americans - 1921 - 414 pages
...Crisis, "we would fight again. But, by the God of Heaven, we are cowards and jackasses if, now that the war is over, we do not marshal every ounce of our...and brawn to fight a sterner, longer, more unbending battje against the forces of hell in our own land." "Back again, to be lynched, bombed, and riot-frenzied...
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Novels of the Harlem Renaissance: Twelve Black Writers, 1923-1933

Amritjit Singh - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 184 pages
...by the "WHEN THE NEGRO WAS IN VOGUE" 7 God of Heaven, wi- arc cowards and jackasses if, now that the war is over, we do not marshal every ounce of our...unbending battle against the forces of hell in our own land.i0 Meanwhile, the urban migration continued. Stimulated by the promise of industrial jobs in the...
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The Ties that Bind: African-American Consciousness of Africa

Bernard Magubane - Africa - 1987 - 268 pages
...circumstances we would Tight again. But by the God of Heaven, we are cowards and jackasses if now that the war is over we do not marshal every ounce of our brain and brawn to Tight longer, more unbending battles against the forces of hell in our own land. We return: We return...
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Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Volume IV

Jose Aranda, Silvio Torres-Saillant - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 312 pages
...urged his compatriots to now fight the home front war: we are cowards and jackasses if now that the war is over, we do not marshal every ounce of our...unbending battle against the forces of hell in our own land.7 African Americans soldiers of the second world war and their home front leaders also waged a...
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Slow Fade to Black

Thomas Cripps - Social Science - 1977 - 462 pages
...blacks until the eve of the Great Depression. WEB DuBois's famous editorial in the Crisis demanded "a sterner, longer, more unbending battle against...forces of hell in our own land. We return. We return pom fighting. We return fighting. Make way for Democracy! We saved it in France, and by the Great Jehovah,...
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Wallace Thurman's Harlem Renaissance, Volume 93

Eleonore van Notten - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 370 pages
...self-supporting. Jabulani Kamau Makalani, "Why Harlem?" Black World Feb. 1976: 12. jackasses if now that the war is over, we do not marshal every ounce of our...unbending battle against the forces of hell in our own land."45 But "the forces of hell," in the most literal sense, were to prevail throughout the so-called...
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Liberty, Equality, and Justice: Civil Rights, Women's Rights, and the ...

Ross Evans Paulson - History - 1997 - 380 pages
...editorial in the Cr1s1s, Du Bois sounded a militant note: [W]e are cowards and jackasses if now that the war is over, we do not marshal every ounce of our...unbending battle against the forces of hell in our land. We return. We return from fighting. We return fighting.20 As far as Du Bois and numerous Harlem...
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Seeing Red: Federal Campaigns Against Black Militancy, 1919-1925

Theodore Kornweibel - History - 1998 - 254 pages
...wartime "Close Ranks" editorial, DuBois thundered that "we are cowards and jackasses if now that the war is over, we do not marshal every ounce of our...land. We return. We return from fighting. We return fighting."7 Even though combat had ceased in western Europe, the Translation Bureau of the Post Office,...
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The Fiery Cross: The Ku Klux Klan in America

Wyn Craig Wade - History - 1998 - 534 pages
...circumstances, we would fight again. But by the God of heaven, we are cowards and jackasses if now that the war is over, we do not marshal every ounce of our...battle against the forces of hell in our own land." Such a viewpoint was anathema to whites, especially in the South. In 1919 seventy-four blacks were...
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