Calendar
Object
Calendar
Production date
1986
Object number
1987.165
Physical Description
Calendar with a Poem by and Portrait of Claude McKay
Associated Person
McKay, Claude (Featured)
Associated Place
Material
Card
Dimension
Height: 450mm
Width: 319mm
Width: 319mm
Exhibition Label
Featured in the temporary exhibition People Power: Black British Arts & Activism in Hackney 1960s-2000s
Hackney Black People’s Association Calendar, 1987
Many local organisations had Pan-African beliefs, including Hackney Black People’s Association founded by Lester Lewis (1945-2007). Born in St Vincent, Lewis founded the Hackney Black People’s Association and campaigned for racial justice in the borough and internationally. The Association’s premises were used for local African commemorations, weddings, church services, community activities and public meetings.
Being African in Hackney: 1960s-2020s
14 September 2021 to 14 February 2022
Hackney Black People’s Association Calendar, 1987
Many local organisations had Pan-African beliefs, including Hackney Black People’s Association founded by Lester Lewis (1945-2007). Born in St Vincent, Lewis founded the Hackney Black People’s Association and campaigned for racial justice in the borough and internationally. The Association’s premises were used for local African commemorations, weddings, church services, community activities and public meetings.
Being African in Hackney: 1960s-2020s
14 September 2021 to 14 February 2022
On display?
No
Inscription
1987
If We Must Die
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, O 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 honour us though dead!
O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!
Though far 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!
Fight for your right - Get organised
Claude Mckay
HACKNEY BLACK PEOPLE’S ASSOCIATION
18 Stoke Newington Road, London N16 7XN
If We Must Die
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, O 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 honour us though dead!
O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!
Though far 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!
Fight for your right - Get organised
Claude Mckay
HACKNEY BLACK PEOPLE’S ASSOCIATION
18 Stoke Newington Road, London N16 7XN