Family Life

What was it like to be a Negro in the first half of the 20th Century? Were all blacks poor and uneducated?

View Part III of Dreaming in America. When you have finished select one of Langston Hughes poems that could be viewed as 'family-oriented' and dramatize that poem. You may work with a group of up to four people.

Family

Religion

Church
Warren Street Baptist Church. Children's Pageant, 1925.

While living with his grandmother, Langston did not attend church regularly. He was, however, aware of the importance of the church in the African American Community. Its importance is shown often in his works

Prayer

I ask you this:

Which way to go?

I ask you this:

Which sin to bear?

Which crown to put

Upon my hair?

I do not know,

Lord God,

I do not know.

My People

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.

The Northeasterners.