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Message to the President

Mr. President, kindly please, May I have a word with you? There’s one thing, for a long time, I’ve been wishing you would do. In your fireside chats on the radio I hear you telling the world What you want…

Ballad of Harry Moore

Florida means land of flowers.It was on Christmas nightIn the state named for the flowersMen came bearing dynamite. Men came stealing through the orange grovesBearing hate instead of love,While the Star of BethlehemWas in the sky above. Oh, memories of…

Worriation

There’s something disturbingTo a cat, no doubt,Sceing birds with wingsFlying about.Is there something disturbingTo Aryans in the wayThat Negroes, being black,Keep looking that way?

Bonds: In Memoriam

Written Especially for the Writers’ War Board, War Loan Drive, by Langston Hughes (For ANP)Eddie and Charlie and Jack and TedAnd Harry and Arthur and Ken Have all gone down Where heroes are foundIn the land of the lost fighting…

Song of Adoration

I would like to be a white man, wouldn’t you? There’s so many lovely things that I could do. I could lynch a Negro— And never go to jail, you know,I would love to be a white man, wouldn’t you?I…

Poem to Uncle Sam

Uncle SamWith old Jim Crow—Like a shadowRight behind you—EverywhereYou go. Uncle Sam,Why don’t youTurn around,And before youTackle Hitler—Shoot Jim down?

Poor Girl’s Ruination

I went to ChicagoAt the age of three.Chicago nearlyRuined me. I went to DetroitAt twenty-one.What Chicago startedDetroit’s done. If I’d a-growed upWith a little moneyI might not a-beenRuined, honey. Before you giveA girl damnation,Take what is inConsideration.

Bonds for All

Buy a Bond for Grandma— Grandma’s growing old. Buy a Bond for Baby— Bless his little soul. Buy a Bond for Papa, Though it’s Father’s Day. Buy a Bond for Mama To salt away. Buy a Bond for Uncle. Get…

Song After Lynching

I guess DEMOCRACY’S meant to beJust a high-flown soundFlying around…Cause the crackers get madIf I try to pin it down, I guess LIBERTY’S supposedTo be just a hope.When Negroes try to make it realThey look for a rope. White folks…

Madam’s Christmas

(Merry Christmas Everybody) I forgotto send a card to JennieBut the truth about cousins isThere’s too many. I also forgotA card for JoeBut I believe I’ll let‘The old rascal go. I disrememberedMy old friend JackBut he’s been evilLong as he’s…