The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Download or read book The Negro Speaks of Rivers written by Langston Hughes and published by Jump At The Sun. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Langston Hughes has long been acknowledged as the voice, and his poem, The Negro Speaks of Rivers, the song, of the Harlem Renaissance. Although he was only seventeen when he composed it, Hughes already had the insight to capture in words the strength and courage of black people in America. /DIVDIV Artist E.B. Lewis acts as interpreter and visionary, using watercolor to pay tribute to Hughes’s timeless poem, a poem that every child deserves to know.