LITERATURE
Hughes, Langston

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

(3) K-3 Illustrated by E. B. Lewis. From the pen of a teenage Hughes, this lyrical piece celebrates a people's enduring determination to survive. Lewis's landscape paintings, in earth-tone shades cooled by the blues of the rivers, are populated with a cross-generation of African Americans throughout history and also of today.

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