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American Heartbreak: 1619
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Tired by Langston Hughes
I am so tired of waiting,
Aren’t you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two –
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.
Langston Hughes Papers
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"My dear Mr. Hughes: I am the author of a three act dramatic play on Negro family life. I have tentatively chosen as a title for this work a line from one of your poems. The line is: 'a raisin in the sun.'" Lorraine Hansberry to Langston Hughes & his reply, 1958
@YCAL_JWJ
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Christmas cards made by Langston Hughes to send to friends, 1950
Related: Langston Hughes Holidays: Mondays at Beinecke, December 21, 2020
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Tired by Langston Hughes
I am so tired of waiting,
Aren’t you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two –
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.
LH Papers
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Tired by Langston Hughes
I am so tired of waiting,
Aren’t you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two –
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.
Langston Hughes Papers
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Tired by Langston Hughes
I am so tired of waiting,
Aren’t you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two –
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.
Langston Hughes Papers
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W. E. B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction, 1st ed. 1935
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"Dear Mr. Hughes: I am the author of a three act dramatic play ... I have tentatively chosen as a title ... a line from one of your poems ... 'a raisin in the sun' ... " Lorraine Hansberry to Langston Hughes, 1958 in LH Papers
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Nina Simone correspondence in the Langston Hughes Papers
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W. E. B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction, 1st ed. 1935
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Mary McLeod Bethune
Van Vechten photographs, 1949
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Tired by Langston Hughes
I am so tired of waiting,
Aren’t you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two –
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.
LH Papers
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Portraits of officers, non-commissioned officers, and enlisted men of Company F, 108th United States Colored Infantry, 1865
From: Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American collection; more:
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The saga of Toussaint L'Ouverture and the birth of Haiti
From: Golden legacy magazine Golden legacy Golden legacy illustrated history magazine, 1966
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Federalist No. 1, Hamilton: "History will teach us ... of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, & ending tyrants." text
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Tired by Langston Hughes
I am so tired of waiting,
Aren’t you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two –
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.
Langston Hughes Papers
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From William Butt's dye book, 1768-1785.
Manuscript volume containing dozens of detailed recipes for cloth dye, accompanied by small fabric swatches dyed in the intended colors.
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Nina Simone correspondence in the Langston Hughes Papers
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I am so tired of waiting,
Aren’t you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two –
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.
Langston Hughes Papers
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Nina Simone correspondence with Langston Hughes
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Their Eyes Were Watching God, manuscript
Zora Neal Hurston Collection
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Paul Robeson, Anna May Wong, Mei-Lanfang; photo by Fania Marinoff
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Christmas cards made by Langston Hughes to send to friends, 1950
Related: Langston Hughes Holidays: Mondays at Beinecke, December 21, 2020
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Nina Simone correspondence with Langston Hughes
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"My dear Mr. Hughes: I am the author of a three act dramatic play on Negro family life. I have tentatively chosen as a title for this work a line from one of your poems. The line is: 'a raisin in the sun.'" Lorraine Hansberry to Langston Hughes & his reply, 1958
@YCAL_JWJ
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Tired by Langston Hughes
I am so tired of waiting,
Aren’t you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two –
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.
Langston Hughes Papers
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"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
Nineteen eighty-four, a novel. George Orwell, 1st edition, 1949
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Tired by Langston Hughes
I am so tired of waiting,
Aren’t you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two –
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.
LH Papers
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Zora Neale Hurston: “Aunt Daphne (left) & Aunt Rachel, were born & raised on the plantation & were believed to have been nearly 100 years old when the picture was made. This cabin in which they lived was the last of the original slave cabins on the place”
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The night is beautiful,
So the faces of my people.
The stars are beautiful,
So the eyes of my people.
Beautiful, also, is the sun.
Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people.
Langston Hughes Papers
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Federalist No. 47: "accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
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"The Press has always been an Enemy to Tyrants; and just so far as Tyranny prevails in any Part of the World, so far the Liberty of the Press is suppressed"
-- among first words in first New Haven newspaper, 1755
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George Washington: “cunning, ambitious, &;unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people & to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.” Text:
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Thread: some Pulitzer Prize for fiction winners in the BRBL archives, these from the 1920s through 1960s ....
1921 prize: The Age of Inncence, Edith Wharton; here: holograph manuscript, corrected in EW Collection
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"The great privilege of the Americans does not simply consist in their being more enlightened than other nations, but in their being able to repair the faults they may commit." Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835, translated by Henry Reeve ...
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Jessie Fauset, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, 1927
in LH Papers
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Paul Robeson, Anna May Wong, Eslanda Goode Robeson, Hsiung Shih-I, Mei Lanfang, Wang Shiao-lou, 1935, photo by Fania Marinoff
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El ingenioso Hidalgo don Qvixote de la Mancha, compuesto por Miguel de Ceruantes Saauedra First edition. Miguel de Cervantes
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Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor
from Detroit Photographic Company’s Views of North America, ca. 1897-1924
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Frederick Douglass with his grandson, Joseph Douglass
from Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection
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Langston Hughes at Lincoln University, ca. 1928
in Langston Hughes Papers
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Note to All Nazis Fascists and Klansmen
Langston Hughes, in Jim Crow's Last Stand, 1943
Langston Hughes Papers
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El ingenioso Hidalgo don Qvixote de la Mancha, compuesto por Miguel de Ceruantes Saauedra First edition. Miguel de Cervantes
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I am so tired of waiting,
Aren't you, ...
in Langston Hughes Papers
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Carolyn Clark, mother of Langston Hughes
LH Papers
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Tired by Langston Hughes
I am so tired of waiting,
Aren’t you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two –
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.
LH Papers
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Audre Lorde
photograph, 1987, from Robert Giard Papers
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Elie Wiesel b.
#OTD
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
@NobelPrize
acceptance speech, full text:
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From William Butt's dye book, 1768-1785.
Manuscript volume containing dozens of detailed recipes for cloth dye, accompanied by small fabric swatches dyed in the intended colors.
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Jessie Fauset, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, 1927
in LH Papers
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Federalist No. 69 on difference between president & king
Full text 1st complete edition
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Fire!! : a quarterly devoted to the younger Negro artists. 1926
Complete work digitized:
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Zora Neale Hurston, Chicago, 1934
Photos by Carl Van Vechten ZNH Collection
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El ingenioso Hidalgo don Qvixote de la Mancha, compuesto por Miguel de Ceruantes Saauedra First edition. Miguel de Cervantes
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Where is the King of America?
"in America THE LAW IS KING. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other."
Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
@Yale_History
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Frederick Douglass, seated, with Joseph Douglass, grandson standing with violin
From: Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American collection
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Nina Simone correspondence in the Langston Hughes Papers
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El ingenioso Hidalgo don Qvixote de la Mancha, compuesto por Miguel de Ceruantes Saauedra First edition. Miguel de Cervantes
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The July 28, 1917 Silent Protest Parade on Fifth Avenue in New York City was one of the first major mass demonstrations by African Americans.
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Langston Hughes with neighborhood children at the Children's Garden, Harlem, NYC, 1955
From: Langston Hughes papers
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El ingenioso Hidalgo don Qvixote de la Mancha, compuesto por Miguel de Ceruantes Saauedra First edition. Miguel de Cervantes
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Nina Simone correspondence in the Langston Hughes Papers
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The Walter O. Evans Collection of Frederick Douglass and Douglass Family Papers has been processed and digitized and is now accessible online to scholars, students, and the public.
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From William Butt's dye book, 1768-1785.
Manuscript volume containing dozens of detailed recipes for cloth dye, accompanied by small fabric swatches dyed in the intended colors.
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Josephine Baker
Photographs by Arthur O'Neill, George Hoyningen-Huene
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Nina Simone correspondence in the Langston Hughes Papers
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Langston Hughes reply, 1958, to Lorraine Hansberry re. using line from his poem as title for A Raisin in the Sun: "I am happy to give you my permission and send you all my good wishes for its success." in Philip Rose Papers
@YCAL_JWJ
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Fire!! : a quarterly devoted to the younger Negro artists. 1926
Complete work digitized:
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Note to All Nazis Fascists and Klansmen
Langston Hughes, in Jim Crow's Last Stand, 1943
Langston Hughes Papers
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Fire!! : a quarterly devoted to the younger Negro artists. 1926
Complete work digitized:
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Ticket to the U.S. Senate
Impeachment of the President, 1868, from the Meserve-Kunhardt Collection
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I am deliberate
and afraid
of nothing.
Audre Lorde, in From a Land Where Other People Live
Detroit, Broadside Press, 1973
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"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. " Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, 1st pub, Pennsylvania Journal, Dec. 19, 1776, soon reprinted as pamphlet
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Langston Hughes with neighborhood children at the Children's Garden, Harlem, New York City, 1955
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