There are so many other lines in several of Langston Hughes' poems that I would love to chalk, but I'm pretty sure it would bring complaints to the library. This is from Dreams. The original plan was to make the whole poem, but I didn't have the time.
At Green Hills Mid-Continent Public Library
The library is hosting Lyric Opera of Kansas City Presents: Langston Hughes: A Lyrical Life tomorrow. I didn't learn about Langston Hughes in school (church school in Texas, so no surprise there). I had to wait until 2018, when my oldest was in middle school, and chose Hughes as an author to study.
I say told because it really wasn't that America then either.
... when my oldest was in middle school, and chose Hughes as an author to study. He told me I should read something and shared Let America Be America Again with me. I will always want America to be the America I was told it was when I was growing up, and this, this isn't it.
A post by Sharon McMahon had been stuck in my head, with me wanting to chalk it since January. I changed some of the wording after reading MLK, Jr.'s speech (and I was trying to make it shorter because of space/time), so I used "inspired by" for her part.
At Woodneath Mid-Continent Public Library
Went back to grab daytime pictures. The library hosted the Lyric Opera of Kansas City Presents: Langston Hughes: A Lyrical Life yesterday. I didn't learn about Langston Hughes in school and had to wait until 2018...
At Green Hills Mid-Continent Public Library (the Friday night drawing)
I made a quick chalk drawing while my kiddo participated in a class here.
At Antioch Mid-Continent Public Library
Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech
kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/...
Sharon McMahon's post
www.instagram.com/p/DTlc_KoAWA...
He told me I should read something and shared Let America Be America Again with me, and we both cried reading it. My children were young then, but not too young to see what was going on, even with parents who didn't talk politics around them. Same kid is now old enough to vote, and boy, do we talk.
