Read this excerpt from Langston Hughes’s poem "Freedom's Plow.”The plow plowed a new furrowAcross the field of history.Into that furrow the freedom seed was dropped.From that seed a tree grew, is growing, will ever grow.That tree is for everybody,For all America, for all the world.
Read the excerpt from "Why Alligator Hates Dog.”Alligator hissed in delight. "Well, look who’s here . . . the mangy, miserable mutt who’s been mocking me every night, shouting, ‘Come and get me, come and get me!’ I gotcha now, don’t I? Get ready, because I’m gonna snap you up and grind you into mincemeat!”
Read this excerpt from “Freedom's Plow” by Langston Hughes.Down into the earth went the plowIn the free hands and the slave hands,In indentured hands and adventurous hands,
Read this excerpt from “Freedom's Plow” by Langston Hughes.Labor! Out of labor came the rowboatsAnd the sailboats and the steamboats,Came the wagons, and the coaches,Covered wagons, stage coaches,Out of labor came the factories,Came the foundries, came the railroads.
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