In 1935, Langston Hughes wrote Let America be America Again.The first 50 lines of the poem were published the next year in Esquire, ending with the line "Who said the free?". In 1938, the International Workers Order (IWO) published 10,000 copies of the entire poem in a collection of Hughes' poetry titled A New Song. It was not known to be printed in full again until 1994.
"Langston Hughes." https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/langston-hughes.
Indexes journal articles, book chapters and more in literature, language development, linguistics and folklore; with abstracts.
Dates Covered: 1926-present.
Poems by African Americans. Search by keyword, poem title, author, genre, or time period.
This resource provides online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers published by or for African Americans between 1827-1998. This collection features papers from more than 35 states, and was created from the most extensive African American newspaper archives in the United States: Those of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Kansas State Historical Society and the Library of Congress.