"LET AMERICA BE AMERICA AGAIN...." || Excerpt from Langston Hughes poem (1936)

"Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above"


The first 50 lines of the poem debuted  on July 1, 1936, print issue of Esquiere Magazine #Mkm8ud" data-sfc-root="ep" jsuid="L72Jd_16" data-sfc-cb="" data-complete="true" data-processed="true" data-copy-service-computed-style="font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 500; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(21, 88, 214);" style="font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 500; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(21, 88, 214);">Esquire magazine. It was published again on January 1, 1938, by the International Workers Order (IWO) in a 31-page pamphle with an introduction by writer Mike Gold 

Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967) American Poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, columnist.  More Expand +