If We Must Die is a poem by which Jamaican writer?
If We Must Die "If We Must Die" is a 1919 poem by Claude McKay published in the July issue of "The Liberator". McKay wrote the poem as a response to mob attacks by white Americans upon African-American communities during Red Summer. The poem was later reprinted in "The Messenger" of the same year. The poem would also be read in Congress by Republican Senator from Massachusetts Henry Cabot Lodge.
And death shall have no dominion "And death shall have no dominion" is a poem written by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953). The title comes from St. Paul's epistle to the Romans (6:9).